Tag: haiku

Orion Poems

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Orion running
Perpetually as light
In the morning sky
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Orion arise
Beloved in the night skies
Running running on
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Standing on a different
Part of the planet
Looking at a different
Part of the sky.
Moving through each day
Step by step and breathe by breathe
Learning what there is to learn
By listening and not judging
Passing up the opportunity to be right
Taking the opportunities in being present.
Standing alone with others
Having an openness that could have been lost
Watching the passing seasons
As the stars rearrange themselves
Orion passes from view
as strength sometimes hides
The constellation reappears
But never changed
Or did it grow stronger?
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In the winter sky
Beyond frigid wisps of clouds
Orion passes
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Orion fell out
Of the sky and scorpion
Usurped selfishly
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Orion runner
Flies through life across the sky
Like it all matters
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Orion’s right knee
Gave out in the late winter
Just as snow melted
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Orion places me on the planet
But the planet moves continuously
But I can’t change
Change is so hard for each person
We are what we were
We became what we were meant to be
We were meant to be what we tried to be
And what our stumbled path led us into
Change, space, place, and self
Being now, living now, listening now
How?
I can’t express myself except sideways
Through poetry which no one reads or cares about
Listening being wondering
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Orion returns
In September ready to
Wrest kindness from wrath
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At noon the sun will
Pass before Orion’s belt
On its day’s journey
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Orion rising
Sideval situation
Betelgeuse and Bellatrix
Above Rigel Alnilam Alnitak and Mintaka
Where is Saiph?
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Blazing shooting star
Under Orion’s right foot
Lights the hunter’s way
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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The sky does not change
Like the earthly dwellers do
Orion still runs
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Orion at dawn
Moving across a dark sky
Lifts my lonely heart
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Orion does the
Same thing every day, running
Why can’t I do that?
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April 5, 2013
Living like a leaf

Holding in my hands
Like a sparrows speckled egg
Fragile full of life

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Hiding in my heart
Memory or foreboding
Please stay there for now
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Happenstance in dance
Brings vitality and joy
Healing in movement
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Like butterfly wings
Crumpled on the narrow path
Bright spirit fades out
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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Thoughts to good to be
Fantasy musings waiting
For healing in me
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Far as I can see
I know is mine secretly
I don’t own the sky
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It was a conceit of mine
To think that of all the poor seekers for help
There are none
who have it worse than me

There is a depth to a well
Which grows deeper and richer
As woe is poured in
And compassion is pulled out

The woman of Samaria stood at the well
And drew water for Jesus
He recognized the kindness being given
By one who had suffered in order to stand by that well.

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Living right now
Usually mundane
But sometimes sublime
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Living right now
Moment to moment
Without anxiety
And foregoing anticipation
Has great value in its simplicity
Living right now
In the moments of pain and heartache
Is exquisite in a way
The heart can break
Then move to another moment
Living right now
When life is good
And simple joys appear
Makes such moments
Worth all that life can give
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A different plane
Of relating has emerged
Deep sorrow deep joy
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Living like a leaf
Letting the wind have its way
Warmed by sun each day
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March 20, 2013
Leaves are like illusions

Wind through the trees
Blows leaves that flutter
In their last attachment to life

The buds of Spring
And green Summer
Give way to orange
And brown
Of life moving on

Leaves are like illusions
Or lives blown by truth;
They last through time
Until contradictions
Or wisdom
Blow them away

The flutter is caused by
The stem clinging to its source
In a gale force

The sputter and flutter and denial
Both stated and internal
Of any person resisting
Acknowledging the truth
Is like those stems
Destined to separate

In the depths of winter
There may be a few leaves
Still dangling
Old beliefs die hard
And illusions linger
After long and bitter truth
Blows down upon the disillusioned

The blue sky of reality
Cold and stark
Is laid bare
By the winds of truth

Until a new Spring
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February 7, 2013
I’d blame it on God

I’d blame it on God
But he doesn’t seem
To be listening
Much.
Just when a miracle
Or some such healing
Is needed
There is silence
And distance
As if to say
You’re on you own there
Find the strength
To heal
Or carry on
Or whatever.

We could use
A bit of help
Here,
Ya know?
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February 7, 2013
The space between breathe and a sigh

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Tilde makes equal
The space between or above
A breathe and a sigh
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Dancing through the dark
Of time and uncertainty
Learning from music
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Cancer lies dormant
It is a false dark shadow
Hiding life’s wonder
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“It is perfectly possible and it’s all okay.” David Servan-Schreiber
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You would write that which
You have to say. Nothing more.
Haiku masters know.
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
Bearing some new hope
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
A flock of sorrows
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And I love you so
Grace in life was sweeter than
Dew upon a peach
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inebriated
frustrated commentary
not the finest kind
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Watching the day fade
Light like time measured then gone
Another phase shift

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February 7, 2013
Clouds

Blue clouds or cold nights
reflect heart and memory
as when hope prevails

from Ron Parker, Tahoe Sunsets on Flickr
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Shadows in the sky
Shades of gold, gray, and silver
Dawn breaks through the clouds
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February 7, 2013
Summer poems 2012 – July

There are certain spots
Always in the shade of trees
Never direct sun
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A baby redwood
Small of girth can grow to be
A forest giant
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Where does the smoke go
As it wafts from wood through fire
Like thought’s energy
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Insular cortex
Physical temperature
Emotional warmth
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Counting pockets on a fishing vest, Gerry said, This one has fourteen pockets.” Anne said, “Better than a mini-van.”
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Upon finding a cabin, a cliff and a river it was written

An accidental
Adventure into the past
Sunny river day
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Ineradicable
Unpredictability of
Quantum physics
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Fireside memory
Blue turns to black then to gray
Then it turns to ash
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Balanced o’er the flame
Until embers took a piece
Of heart and soul
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The sun on the trees
The chill in the air
The warmth of the fire
The jays calling
The mountain air crisp
With promise of
A new day
And hot springs
Relaxation
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Fire renews the soul
Warmth and light yet consuming
Forms shift like spirit
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For the poker stick

Like flaming prayer
Guide wood reached out for heaven
Ember memories
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February 7, 2013
Haiku for the moment

Some things we see are
just inadvertently fun
That’s why we do this
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The quality of light
The manifestations of light
The sun, the moon and the earth align
And show the shadows of our being
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White flowers blooming
Beauty adds to our healing
soul connects to mind

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June 1, 2012
April 2012 – Life and the events It is both more and less than it appears to be.

About to burst out
Rain nor wind inhibit it
Potential beauty
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Giants stand tall
Shrouded in the morning fog
Soon the sun will shine.

Swift the river flows
Swollen by the falling rain
Stained brown by the earth

Women making plans
The bond between them grows strong
Sisters standing tall

Those are lovely
The wilderness suits you well
with modern comfort.
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There he goes again
another exuberant
life adventurer
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“So many poems happen at the intersection of time and eternity”

Marie Howe on NPR
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The God in you is
The God you alone let through.
To shine on the world
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When we have doubt it
Paralyzes certainty
Life is uncertain.
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Life’s vicissitudes
Opportunity for choice
Learn to love cactus
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Graffiti on wall
Real or just an illusion
Like your city life?

A photo by Orin Zebest

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“Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”

“Through compassion our humanity grows into its fullness.”

Nouwen-McNeill-Morrison in Compassion
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Tulips are fading
In the early summer heat
Yellowed Spring flowers

Tulips have faded
What can replace them today
Besides memory

Tulips can return
Nurtured with love from the past
New color and joy found
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Behind closed eyelids
An orange like no other
In springtime sunshine
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4/30/2012 12:53 PM

Life and the events
It is both more and less than
it appears to be.
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June 1, 2012
March 2012 – renewal toward Spring

Finding faith to walk
In immortality now
Opening present
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In the gray garden
I heard a spiritual voice
Opening up the world
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Ya, the weird is world
We that knew every sunrise
Something more daily
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Blue sky going now
Clouds are moving overhead
Winter has its way
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Seeking the light
Will lead to becoming
A person of no shadow
Because the light
Shines through you
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Lost days of healing
So many things have happened
Unexpected years
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Golden bridge rising
That was the bridge often crossed
Memories rising
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“They say time changes things but actually you have to change them yourselves”
Andy Warhol
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Shadows of the earth
Across celestial spaces
Waxing or waning?
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“People,
because of a lack of knowledge and training,
view life as through a key hole.
People,
therefore, see only a very small portion
of the actual picture.”

Sophia Williams
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Green buds on white bark
Trees of the whole world renew
The air, and, our hope
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June 1, 2012