Category: Haiku
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Pomegranates
Pomegranate seedsHades’ trickeryPersephone’s fallEight months aboveWith Mom DemeterFour months below with HadesTricked and trippedBy unconscious forcesWe struggle to rise above
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Melting
Snow capped mountainsMeltingInto historyLike an escaping dreamEluding memory’s graspSilent, wordless grief Painting by Kawase Hasui
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Spring Wildflowers
How can a flowerPossess such powerTo cheer us up?Unfolding symmetryPhotons of colorSnatched from the cosmosDeceptive simplicityA spiritual mysteryOf wonder and love
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Incongruous Spring
Spring in swingNature’s happy new constructionAmidst societal destruction I’ve never been a big Grateful Dead fan, but this bumper sticker really hit the spot (You can get these on Amazon):
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The Taskmaster, a Meditation on Aging and Learning
The TaskmasterA chance meeting at midlifeA young cellist on the radioSlow emotive notesReverberations and longingSo you became my taskmasterInsisting upon unity of body and mindClearing of obsessionsDemanding relaxationA strange new countryFour strings the only roadsSounds the only guidepostsConfusion, frustrationThis note is A, this is C, this is F sharpBut I had no unconscious template, no…
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Avian Mutual Fund
Caching acornsAll the way up to the skyWoodpecker hedge fund A community of acorn woodpeckers ( and they are very communal!) converted a stand of redwood trees into a huge acorn granary. I’ve never seen such a large storage. The birds themselves weren’t keen on being photographed, so I pirated one from wikipedia.
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The Turtle Life
Slow and steadyI’m a turtle writerA turtle personAnxiety and stress?Withdraw and isolateGo away world!! I often see 2 or 3 turtles sitting together on a floating log, but on this cold day I saw dozens, close to a hundred, basking in the sun. They’re quite big- about a foot across–I think they might be Pacific…
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