splitting
the stone of a white peach
with the edge of a knife
Takako Hashimoto
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I don’t have the skill
Or the speed
Or the presence of mind
Or the heart
Or the wherewithal
Or the desire
Or the need
If I soak it
In a tumbler of water
Will it grow again
Or does it need
To be opened
By the swift stroke
Of the sword brandishing
Samurai’s daughter
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
drawing light
from another world—
the Milky Way
Yatsuka Ishihara
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What cannot be said
Cannot be heard
So say it
And hear it
And explore it
Yes, find it
Yet know
That there is no higher
Nor more subliminal force of creation
We are wholly what true science
Has the way to show us
We can always find explanation
If only for half of the way there
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
a sparrows nest
perhaps
inside the A-bomb dome
Kinichi Sawaki
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I stall
I don’t know how to respond
For the first time
I don’t have words of reaction
Of course the image of new life
Is always joyful, welcome
Wherever it occurs
Yet did it not close my eyes
To the atrocities
Do I still need to go there
Is that how we achieve our peace
By keeping open the soul
By keeping picking at our old wounds
I don’t know the answers
Nor even
Where these words ought to go
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
Ever lingering
in the taste of the walnut:
deep autumn.
James W. Hackett
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And so to impermanence
Which the farmer
Naturally understands
For he works
From season to season
From sowing to reaping
To all of those harvests in between:
Harvest of sun
Harvest of moon
Harvest of rain
Harvest of drought
Harvest of day
Harvest of night
Harvest of dark
Harvest of light
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
The gull
giving loneliness
sound.
Alexis Rotella
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You are alone
Although you won’t think so
Because today is your birthday
But you cannot have a party
Or play with your friends
You could go to school
But only with your brother
And one other
In the hospitals
Where your mum and dad work
The alone
Have loneliness cast upon them
But this time will not last forever
You will have other birthdays
To elaborate on the beauty
Of being alone
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan