Category: Poetry
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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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Irises
You hoped the irisesMight dispel our lonelinessBut they couldn’tIrisesMy first memories of youTinged with sadnessBut now I see youEverywhere, in the wildAnd you make me smile photos by me, art by Kawase Hasui
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Leap!
Happy Leap Day!! Winter’s waning daysSpring Exuberance-Leap across!To spring Fever! Art by Kawase Hasui
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Flower or Fruit?
Which blossoms will become fruit?But for the busyness of a bird or a beeWhich will fall silentlyInto death’s obscurityWe enter this life of uncertaintyWith no guaranteesNature offers us so many mirrorsOf our instincts and frailtiesIn nature I can find my spirituality If you look closely, there is a bee in the photo!
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Stillness
Surface stillnessBelies percolating depthsMisunderstandingsSolitude, quietudeEssential nutrientsFor an introvert
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Brief Thoughts of Spring
Unfolding potentialsSpiraling fantasiesOf Spring Unfurling giant fern fronds in a redwood forest
Haumanu Speaks/PoetiCalli 