a white lotus—
the monk decides
to cut it!
Buson Yosa
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That found
In that place
Of two
Quite separate
Visitations
One of mud
One of flower
Both fed by the water
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
After weeks of watching a roof leak
I fixed it tonight
by moving a single board
Gary Snyder
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My nature, so it seems
Is to sit with my feet in the streams
Where I take my time, to decide
What to say next, or what to do next
Not yet in harmony with myself
I concentrate on the cold water
To make me feel something, anything
Then
As I pull my socks onto my wet white feet
I am thankful
And so the day began
And so the day moved on, at one with itself
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
ancient pond—
frog jumps in
sound of the water
Basho Matsuo
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Water has been my life source
Ponds have been my distractions
I have travelled widely on the back of water
Water gave me my trade, which I relied upon
Now water is here to give me calm
I listen to it flowing and cascading
I go to those places where water gifts beauty
Yet I am no wild swimmer
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
when the spade turns
the soil in our garden—
how different…
Ion Codrescu
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How different indeed
To be able
To plant sixty trees
Over one, wet
Easter weekend
And now to watch
As five Silver Birch
Head skywards
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
shaking
the packet of seeds
asking, are you still alive?
Kiyoko Tokotumi
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Hope
Carry me
Ladle yourself
Into my pocket
Be there
When I scatter my thoughts
To the four winds
Trust in me
To believe
In the land
On which I stand
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan