Time

      A page of Shelley

brightens and dims

with passing clouds

Rod Wilmott

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Already

You have ably assisted

To help me make the first mark

On the blank page

Being so easy to impress

Almost without thought

I looked to copy your words

And so I moved to my bookshelf

Yet, instead of taking a book

My memory took me fifteen years back

To the old vicarage cottage

Which was my B&B for a while

It was safe, secure

A restful place

Where, of an evening

I would often read of the Victorian poets

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Letting Go

i catch

the maple leaf then let

it go

John Wills

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I do, or I don’t

Do I, or don’t I?

To let go, what does that mean?

Our past is our past, all of it

It is our food for life

So don’t let go is what I say

Or only let go if you truly want to

But not as some doctrine

Or humbug space

Between the words of truth

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

True Happiness

along with spring leaves

my child’s teeth

are coming in

Kusatao Nakamura

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Don’t think of I

Think of you

And how I might help

More so than coincidence

Timing is everything

And thus the loan is approved

The circle

Is always open

But never is it broken

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Animal Wisdom

calmly

he gazes at the mountain—

the frog

Issa Kobayashi

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My ease is elsewhere

In my truth

I cannot deny

My staff is humanity

In my hopes

I cannot lie

My life is with your life

Our purpose is

To continue to try 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Alleviating Suffering

summer’s morning:

a child of the poor

drags a head of cabbage

Ippekiro Nakatsuka

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Take in

Give out

Breath after breath after breath

Clear

Clear and open

Or as open as is possible

With the blossom

Less of a food

Than well-fried cabbage

With potatoes and butter

From a child of the poor

To a teenager of the sixties

And now, sixty plus a few years

In the twenty-first century

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan