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Tag: haiku

  • Inspired haiku – Thanks Skip Moore

    Sunset_130611

    Sunset atmosphere
    The universe is surreal
    Or, is it sunrise?

    Quaking Oats

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  • It’s good to have hope on your team (and penny too)

    The hawk sits tired
    On a post; ruffled feathers
    Sometimes too much wind
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    120212 Sunrise

    The flame of compassion
    Is started by generosity
    Borne in our own experience of need
    Kept alight by
    The wind of desire
    To be better than we are

    A fire shared among people
    Who, together, become
    A towering blaze
    Of life giving warmth in the world

    (inspired by Piero Ferrucci, “The Power of Kindness”)

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    By way of a chance
    Hidden quality is born
    Showing reality
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    I have a daily dose
    Of pain and heartache
    Shared and passed on

    Life is not pain and sorrow
    Life has pain and sorrow
    Life is not goodness and happiness
    Life has goodness and happiness

    Pain and goodness
    Sorrow and happiness
    Are caused by attachments
    Hanging memories on our being

    I have a daily dose
    Of compassion and wonderment
    Shared and passed on

    Random acts of kindness
    Senseless bouts of cruelty
    Daily struggles
    And nightly dreams
    Such are the things of life
    Hanging memories on our being
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    A haiku lover’s
    Watch only has the numbers
    Five and seven there
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    Pronunciation
    Intelligibility
    Articulation
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  • Information and Referral

    Shadows under vines
    Shade obvious suffering
    For those living there
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    Homeless not hopeless
    Chin up day to day despite
    Chance and circumstance
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    Homeless in Santa Rosa 01/25/2013

    Lives lived in places
    Near to all but far away
    Looking for relief
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    Handful of dollars
    Grimy product still needed
    If you want nice things
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    Welfare office wait
    Kindness of humanity
    Inadequate dole
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    Giving and getting
    The stuff of life’s renewal
    Given by kind hands
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    How do we sustain
    The good of each person seen?
    Respect and kindness

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  • Found haiku and the road less traveled

    Two blue butterflies
    On a beautiful blue bridge
    being butterflies
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    Rosemary of February

    Some grow anywhere
    Sun nor cold will belay them
    Rosemary and spurge.

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/07/12

    Rosemary of February

    Does God ever apologize?
    Is fate ever just?
    Is happenstance really chance?
    Or does fate drive our circumstance?
    If happenstance and fate met along the way
    which road would they choose?
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  • light of souls

    William Morris Glass at Palm Springs Museum
    An urn rim glows dim

    Reminder of light of souls

    Leaving space on earth?

    William Morris Glass at Palm Springs Museum

  • May grace and mercy

    Just another day
    Slogging along. Rather be
    Jogging into bed
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    Three joyous women
    A decade of hell on earth
    Renewed lives today

    #usatodayhaiku
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    None expected mob
    Benghazi still befuddles
    Diplomats’ regret

    #usatodayhaiku
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    Climate change Spring time
    Early fires and late snow storms
    Portend things to come

    #usatodayhaiku
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    Margaritaville
    Five syllable reminder
    Tequila goodness
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    Warm sunshine light breeze
    Honeysuckle scent wafting
    Worries dissipate
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    Cathedral City, California, Fountain of Life

    Haiku arises
    Memory then awareness
    Out of distant past

    Out of distant past
    Memory then awareness
    Haiku arises
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    Sunlight on a door
    Door does not know it is warm
    Nor an opening
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    Rocking bird feeder
    The bird is already gone
    One less hungry one
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    May grace and mercy
    Find us all days of our lives
    Heaven here on earth

    Will anything find us?
    Ever ease the weary soul?
    Grace and mercy may
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    Orange buds

     

  • dew + skills + sunshine + laughter

    042813 Sonoma Coast 114

    Roll away the dew
    Wildflower seeds will renew
    Sacred hillside life
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/24/13

     

    “The skills you need

    to know what you do

    can be different than

    the skills you need to do what you know.”

    Mark Katz                                                                http://conta.cc/Zx7tnI

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/25/13

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    Rays of sun shine down
    Orange blends yellow blends white
    Warming the weary bones
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    “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge

    is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

    Albert Einstein

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/25/13

  • Empathy

    [inspired by “The Power of Kindness” by Piero Ferrucci, 2006, Penguin Group ]

     

    Enter resonance
    All relationships are now
    Empathic presence

    or

    Present empathy
    Intertwined us together
    As a sacred gift
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    Spring scenes Santa Rosa 2013-24
    Empathy requires
    Unconditional regard
    For the one person
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  • Bodega Bay

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    A bird on a rock
    Green ice plant purple flowers
    Bay waters flowing
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    You would think I would
    have run out of tears by now
    Fog rolls out to sea
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    A black bird flying
    landing among pink flowers
    Then bathing nearby
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  • Too many things have happened

    It’s Monday again
    Like an ant walking in line
    I pick up my load
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    She wakes in the night
    Ignore the stupid machine!
    And go back to sleep
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/13/10

    Angel turns her back
    How long will it take to move
    Past sorry to something?
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    Rhododendron-4

    I am an optimist and I lived my life in joy
    Too many things have happened to me and the ones I love
    For me to worry about any one thing
    with a greater perspective or trauma
    than its place in the wholeness of my life
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/05/13