the war—
yet
these little birds
Yves Gerbal
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Nothing is over
Flight, or fight, or freeze
Not anything
Ever to be worn or woven
With baubles or bubbles or breeze
That the whole thing
Needs to be gone over
With the detail, of a treatise
Yes, to become beholden
Of all of that which we desire to seize
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
Derelict with eyes
I settle in a quiet
Carnival of waves
Sonia Sanchez
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Always
That pure beauty
With such
A smile
Of welcome
— come close
See me, feel me
As I want you
Always to see me
Always to feel me
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
the vast night—
now nothing less
but the fragrance
Jorge Luis Borges
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Indeed
Our last night
Vast
Does not go anywhere close
The perfumes
Abandoned intensity
Dwarfs
All other thoughts
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
in the dark
where you undress
a blooming iris
Nobuko Katsura
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You
Slip off
Your slip
I
Climb
Into your bed
Together
We turn the potter’s wheel
Towards creation
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
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
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan