ah, in the corner
look again-
winter chrysanthemum, red
Teijo Nakamura
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Yes, Christmas time
The present arrives
As it did last year
As it did the year before
No need for second-guessing
No need to read the card
I Give You This Cadmium Red
To see your figure by the door
I saw you dance
“What, in these shoes” you had said
I insisted on a twirl by the ventilator
Wow you caused such a furore
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
picked
by an old woman’s hand
herbs green and glowing
Soen Nakagawa
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Yesterday
A box built
For growing potatoes
Today
A fresh delivery
Of seeds and plants
The picking
Will be sometime
In the future
But for now
We hold onto
The promise:
“It is not that
the form is only material
And the emptiness spiritual”
Quotation is from Stephen Batchelor’s
The Art of Solitude
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
first light
everything in this room
was already here
Christopher Herold
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Yet I still have to rearrange
The coffee tables
Use one of the smaller ones
For the table-lamp
It has been nagging me for days
So, on this morning
Which is not so bright
But neither so frosty
As on the previous days
I make my move
In the half-shadows
I go unnoticed
In the second light
I move quietly
But repeatedly ask myself
Will the change be noticed
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
in the deep fires
I saw the way
a peony crumbles
Shuson Kato
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Might this be
The end of war
Is it foolish to say such a thing
Might the flowers
Always be the family
With scents and beauty
Might humanity become human
However much angst or hatred
That we still have within us
Do not ever sanction destruction
Whatever you might think
Destruction actually means
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
the shell I take
like shell it takes
ebb tide
Vincent Tripi
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Attuned to our environment
We climbed into the small rowing boat
The subtle, knowing, energy of the water
With its compassion and wisdom
Asked that we share our day
We were available
There for the flower to open
Conditions ripe in our lives
A new circumstance
Soon to become inauspicious
By another coincidence
I write this on this day
It is exactly, give or take
Exactly as the ebb tide
Gives and takes
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan