he says a word
I say a word:
autumn deepens
Kyoshi Takahama
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I grow
Am growing older
Than the seasons
Which do deepen
I choose words
More quickly
As if fearful
No, no I won’t say it
For still I do believe
That some summers
Are yet before me
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
morning glories—
the well-bucket entangled
I ask for water
Chiyo-Ni
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Given gifts
Crossing seas
Island landings
Ice-cream cornets
On the first day of May
Dancing
Around the maypole
While
Climbing aboard
The horse-drawn carriage
Laid out, spread-eagle
In the meadow
Taking steps tomorrow
To the beach
I thank the seas
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
lily:
out of the water…
out of itself
Nicholas Virgilio
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Out of the steadiness
Or ready acceptance
Onto the waves
Of a vibrant sea
Take me to the heavens
Take me to the sky
Take me to the discoveries
Of more about me
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
For Allen Ginsberg
MAROON
suitcase
by
a
garbage can.
My
white
breath
in
air
Michael McClure
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Anything but
Not a story
From the parlour
Nor a description
Of a quiet drive
Instead provocation
With words
With layout
All the tricks of the trade
In ways in which
I plainly see
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
not seeing
the room is white
until that red apple
Anita Virgil
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I did not see the monk on fire
But I did see the stone in the kitchen
What was lost slowly returned
Locked away, perhaps
As a protective gesture
For not to see clearly
Could be more trouble
Than not to see at all
Yet, eventually
The full truth
I what will likely
Bring salvation
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan