“Compassion instead of revenue”
to the one breaking it—
the fragrance
of the plum
Chiyo-Ni
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Bright yellow
In November
Brushing up
Against
The moss covered roof
Take one cutting
Plant one tree
Meanwhile
The self-seeding
Self seed
Light plains
Out of season
Covering up
Covering over
The ash covered loss
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
“air raids night after night”
clear stars
in the cold night
after the planes roar
Hideno Ishibashi
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Beyond you
By some good distance
Distant from you
By some good fortune
We only go
Where the given takes us
We only take
The gifts of good which forsake us
Beyond, and also before
By any kind of measure
Before? Don’t even go there
Happy for love, which toils with leisure
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
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