Prayer

the spirit, the truth

of silent prayer—

just the moon on the road

Kikusha-Ni

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And so your answer

Is also my answer

Your opening gambit

Is also my first question

Yet it is I 

Who am by the harbour

With sailing boats

Ready for salt water

My coffee is black

And seriously strong

My cigarette’s tobacco

Is probably from Virginia

Although it is pervaded

In a gold packet

Bearing the name. of the man

Who founded New York

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Fearlessness

the piercing cold—

in our bedroom, stepping

on my dead wife’s comb

Busan Yosa

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Your words

Took away my words

Your emotions

Trampled all over mine

Such that

All there being left

Was the gold dust

Of wherewithal

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

The Art of Shifting

moonlight—

a sand dune

shifts

Virginia Brady Young

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Even before the day on the sand dunes

I thought many times

Many, many times

Of moving out

Of moving on

Often invited

Though sometimes not

Often

Overstaying my welcome

Though sometimes not

Raging

In and out

Of a veritable state

Of perplexity

Or ecstasy

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Element of Air

the wind

forced to blow

on concrete, steel, and glass

Jack Cain

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Yesterday’s uplifting breeze

Carried with it

Today’s dampening rain

Yet my spirits are lifted

For the farmers and the gardeners

Need their plants, and their lands, to be refreshed

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Fire: Element of Energy

across the fields of stubble

flame stalks flame

David Cobb

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I have prepared for the fire

With green overalls

And yellow suede, gardening gloves

Yet I am not ready for the fire

First I need another’s validation

That it is the right thing to do

That removal serves a useful purpose

And the building

Which would surely follow

Could become a place of love

For without such assurance

There seems to be little point

In progressing with what could be

A shared-life adventure

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan