across a rose fence—
a cat lover
a cat hater
Kazuo Sato
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He was a partition dispute expert
Trying to bring together
Disparate, argumentative neighbours
Also he was a quantity surveyor
Trying to recover whatever costs
That I told him that we were due
A lifetime then spent by the both of us
On the Boundary, perhaps as sung by
The Duckworth Lewis Method
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
The taste
of rain
—Why kneel?
Jack Kerouac
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You are right
I didn’t know
But now that I do
I am rather pleased
With the style
With the content
With the disobedience
I too tasted the rain
On dark nights
At the bus stop, under the trees
After the long downhill walk
From the cross-country railway station
I also was on a spiritual path
On my way
To see my two beautiful children
As many estranged fathers might
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
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