shall we die together,
my lover whispers—
evening fireflies
Masajo Suzuki
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Before the death
The living
Empathy
With letters
To and fro
As pen friends
As passengers
Carrying news
Of old places
Of new places
Of the rise
And the fall
Of love’s passions
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108 poems to
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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
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
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
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