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with their white heads

together

Kyorai Mukai

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The Acer

Is yet to be planted out

A birthday gift

It will have pride of place

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Beauty

full moon—

shadows of pines

on the straw mats

Kikaku Takarai

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One tea ceremony

Just one

In this one lifetime

A ceremony

To share

With this one other

Away from the trees

Out of the woods

On the desert plains

Where the mysteries

Of the day

Are to be buried deep in sand

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Ethics and Morality

winter gusts—

abortion herb has boiled

and yet…

Sojo Hino

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She said

She could not bear

To bear him another son

Yet the man

Or the men

They could not change

However much they climbed

The hierarchy ladder

Of life

Other than to choose

To die alone

If choice he so had

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Epiphany

winter morning

without leaf or flower

the shape of the tree

L.A. Davidson

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September Sunday

Sheep in the field

Drizzle in the air

Quiet

Except for breakfast

First, on the stove

Then, at the table

Rabbits on the lawn

Poems in the book

Life is even

If not yet crisp

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Austere Beauty

terminally ill—

and her nails beautiful

by the wooden heater

Dakotsu Iida

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Don’t go there

Not yet

Not for a good while yet

Don’t even think about it

Not now

Not even in the near future

It is too much to contemplate

A step too far

However small the steps you take

Think instead of the lightness

Of the temptations

Of the early, explorative years

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan