Now

Your shadow

on the page

the poem.

Cid Corman

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And then

Mystified

By the coincidence

Of the relevance

Of the sermon

To the situation 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Ignorance

winds of autumn—

water less transparent

than the fins of fish

Takajo Mitsuhashi

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I know nothing

Of the waters

Or the woods

All I can think

Is that a memory

May be triggered

By the sea being in front of you

With the tree strewn mountains

Rising behind you

And the fishermen

Laying their wares on the tables

Beside the harbour walls

Where strong coffee is taken

While smoking roll-your-own cigarettes

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Everyday Chores

for everyday clothes

an everyday mind—

peach blossoms

Ayoko Hosomi

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It is not every day

That you lose your country

Some folks never do

And I, thankfully, am one of them

But others can go no further

Than seeing the blossom leaves

Fall from the trees

Onto the gravel path below

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Power

Summer night:

in my eyes starlight

hundreds of years old

George Swede

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Northern lights

Streets of Scandinavia

Plains of distant love

In this

The city of storytellers

Parliament buildings

Provide early morning shade

For the salmon fishermen

Whose rods rest ready

Over the clear, ice-cold, water

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan  

Masculine Principle

dusting off

his father’s sheet music—

spring moon

Kris Moon Kondo

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Dust behind the door

Dust from the earthquake’s roar

Dust beneath the floorboards

Dust to show you know the score

Dust inside the troubled soul

Dust from the freeway’s fall

Dust under the shadow

Dust to realign the call

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan