raging seas—
lying over Sado island
the Milky Way
BashÅ Matsuo
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That place of rage
Blood veins thick
With the rich liqueurs
Of violent emotion
That mind of rage
Not another thought welcome
Beyond the lusted for
Languors of love
That hope of rage
Where the stream flows
The sunlight sparkles on the water
As together hands are held and steps taken
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
in between
the Kabul bombings—
voices of cricket
Patricia Donegan
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Peter Gabriel sings:
The power of your heart
You know me
I like to dream a lot
In between
The haiku
And the song
And the Sunday
Afternoon stillness
I see
The recently trimmed edge
Its line
In line with the line of time
At least until next spring
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
“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