ebb tide
sandpipers skitter
across her ashes
Jerry Kilbride
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Firm, glowing skin
A poet’s trip
To the water
At the place
Where the mountain
Might have been
Had there been a mountain
So close to the sea
Where your name flowered
For one day, to live on
Until and beyond this day
Not yet time for ashes
Or to make that final journey
In search of
The poem’s hidden treasure
Where youth and antiquity
Become one
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108 poems to
cultivate awareness
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closing the gate
alone with the stones
on this beautiful night
Shuoshi Mizuhara
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My door swings open
Yours also
On brighter days
Let the churchyard alone
Just remember
The lover’s seat
Walk down the steps
To the beach
In the cove
Be aware
Of where you are
Of where you have been
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108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
the inner tide—
what moon does it follow?
I wait for a poem
Diane Di Prima
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Wait no more
Visit your brother
Take the drive
Relieve the pressure
I will be ok
Indeed I may thrive
While you do your duty
And I turn to play
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108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
white frost—
the nun’s worn wicker basket
starts the journey
Sono-Jo
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The young woman
There, in place of you
About to start
About to enter
Her own closed order
Just as, so had you
Those several
Months before
That was a day
With a frost on its way
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
cherry blossoms fallen
people’s hearts
serene again
Koyu-Ni
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In my summer
The first summer leaf
On the blossom tree
In my grain of sand
The first (or latest) deep desire
For transformation
To become who knows who
Yet to do so with life
In all of its many colours
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan