“All my life through the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.” Marie Curie
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Running Water
Spring rains, spring flowersWater flowing everywhereRunning, runny noseFelled by the fluTrying to doze and composeA few haiku
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Easter … An Island
You cut down all the treesNo wood left to make a boatNo way to escapeAn island so remoteNo way to fish upon the seaNo fruit left to harvestFlightless birds were all killedSocietal darknessYou waded into the waterCatching what you could by handA tragedy of heedlessnessThat would only expandThe dolphins and fish moved awayWise to your
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Resurrection of a Dream
A lost fragment of a dreamFloats into viewLate in the dayBelieved extinctIn the morningThe image is somehow rekindledOrdinary life recedesAttention rivetedThe image is allThe mystery is realInterior, transcendentThe cosmos in a dream NASA Webb Telescope image
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Poppies
What are we?Why are we?Answers no easier with ageBut maybe the questions are clearerLife clings tenaciouslyWherever it canConstantly striving to beA poppy, a bird, you, or meSo much improbability, entropyIn Life’s TreeYet so much defiant braveryYes, I will exist!And do my bestTo use my giftsTo wonder, and discoverTo meet the gaze of a wild creatureAnd
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