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Tag: poem

  • We encounter things

    Turkeys gobbling
    While crows are cawing nearby
    Morning at my house.
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    We encounter things
    So strange yet still so common
    Children’s services
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    Haiku for you.
    petaluma river

    Sky in the water
    Clouds turn blue on a river
    like boats lingering.
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    I love the shadows
    They reach across my life and
    warm my weary bones

    Just Any Old Creosote
    Photo of creosote bush in Cathedral City, California by Orin Zebest

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/27/10

    Three shades of color
    Across an open landscape
    Depicting life’s blend

    Sun, Clouds and Creatures
    Photo taken in South Africa by Lynae Straw

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/07/10

    Idling bus riders
    Their time means less than schedules
    Here next to the road
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    Ecological
    Translates to inconvenience
    For the bus rider
    020510 bus stop
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/01/10

    I’m not prolific
    Haiku just happens because
    I have a notebook
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  • Haiku speed writing journey

    Winter overcast

    Walking with the dog briskly

    Exploring a place

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    Winter in the woods

    Birds dancing on bare branches

    The last leaves falling

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>  12/28/09

    My morning sunshine

    Showing brightly in her eyes

    This woman I love

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/05/10

    In the winter sky

    Beyond frigid wisps of clouds

    Orion passes

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/09/10

    Went on a sudden

    Haiku speed writing journey

    On a homebound bus

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Geese calling loudly

    Under a gray gloomy sky

    Piercing the quiet

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Warm fingers wiggle

    Coziest bicycle gloves

    Grasp the writer’s pen

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Twittering haiku

    Making one hundred forty

    Be five seven five

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Guess what I started

    Riding on the bus today

    Motion poetry

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    Santa Rosa light

    Through trees and vineyards shining

    Even in the rain

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    Light through distant clouds

    Reminders of the day’s end

    World spins round again

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    How fast can he write

    Entertain or occupy

    Amuse someone now

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Glowing orbs passing

    People driving sending smoke

    Illuminated

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  • Timing life’s cadence

    How in the middle
    Of nowhere uncertainty
    Resolves in silence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/25/07

    Learning to listen
    To the rhythm of breathing
    Timing life’s cadence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    Guidance comes when it
    Is given through listening
    To your direction
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    The eyes cannot see
    What the soul reveals each time
    Breathe flows in and out
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    I must be like you
    Listen to this whisper always
    A sound of thunder
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/07

    He too is some stream
    Thought in early trickle if
    Rain is like water
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/07

    Honor the present
    completely accepting now
    no then or future
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    every day we find
    Spontaneous confusion.
    is there any other kind?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/26/08
    12:50 p.m. based on page 26 of a General Theory of Love

    Play Saying one thing
    is physical poetry
    meaning another

    1:10 p.m.
    we earn our keep as
    trusty assistants ever
    watchful here and now.

    1:20 p.m.
    I’m gonna kiss it
    and make it better for you
    that’s what I should do

    1:34 page 30 of a General Theory of Love

    abstraction invents
    possibility of a
    mental future

    3:53 page 37 of a General Theory of Love
    feeling deeply is
    synonymous with being
    alive for humans

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    night thoughts drift past dreams
    or was it more likely that
    dreams drift past night thoughts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/21/08

  • Haiku about people and such

    Life is imperfect
    People do what they think right
    Live patience calmly
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    Those ones who observe
    Watching justice slide away
    Undone by process
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    Memories come unbidden
    To the victims of Katrina and Bagdad
    Memories come unbidden

    NOT a HAIKU
    To the displaced
    the failures of the leaders is remembered
    Regretfully, sporadically
    Recovery wrestles with regret
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/29/06 (copied)

    Can you explain it,
    Intelligence, by the way
    Thoughts show on the face?
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    I learn things really
    fast because days grow shorter
    patience reflected
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/25/08

    Neither here nor there
    Stones in time bend to nature
    Souls are gone from stones.

    Jay Cross’ graveyard photo on Flickr Sunday
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    Aldous Huxley
    optimistic concurrence
    we want avoidance
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    A freeway canyon
    Over Santa Rosa creek
    Is what we have now
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    Traffic sputtering
    Around the old courthouse square
    Drive away instead
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    Bicycles blazing
    Catch the imagination
    Of Santa Rosa
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    Throughout my whole life
    I have made it a habit
    To give away things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/20/08

    The budget process
    A mock might equal amuck
    Keep slogging anyway

    Today’s Haiku – inspired by Nick Honey’s budget description @ all staff meeting

    Mach six is money
    Running really fast in the
    Wrong direction, oy.
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    Things are what they are
    So pay close attention to
    Complicated things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/27/08

    Teenager secret
    Affirmative denial
    Just keep them guessing
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    A haiku for her.

    attitude and joy,
    such a great combination
    in a little girl.
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    Keep your eyes open
    Keep your mouth shut, all the time
    Keep your hands moving

    Attributed to Cindy Wolf
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    Reflected image
    Of love’s hidden light in dreams
    Revealed in you
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/15/08

    She is lost in thought
    The light of the future glows
    In her potential

    Haiku for you
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/allenowen/2547325334/
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    The pervasiveness
    of fear – it’s like poison on
    anyone’s weary brain
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    Q-tips kleenex bags
    plenty of paper products
    on a shopping list

    (don’t really need this – it was an old shopping list on the back of this morning’s haiku)
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    Smiles flashing boldly
    Moments of pure joy in life
    Like a mockingbird
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    Transfer behind a
    Temporary intention
    Lack of commitment
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    Life and light
    More and less
    Talents and gifts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/24/08

    Leadership level
    Categories spelled out
    Do they capture soul?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Too tired to talk
    Life just keeps plugging along
    Now what will I do?
    (by Anne)
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    Get your cute ass home
    Consider evening light and
    those ones who love you

    or

    Tell all those who grouse
    to be quiet like a mouse
    then close office door
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    Barak Obama
    Hope embodied in a man
    A new president
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    Pictures of a room
    Another classroom landscape
    Student space to learn
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    Deliberate haste
    Is moving quickly slowly
    Barak Obama
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Our Acquisitions
    Are not Transformational
    Relationships are
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    the blessed get to
    pay for the mistakes of the
    well off and the poor
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    Friends in Sonoma
    Found a field of wine and grass
    Caballos blancos

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/althewop/3526195573/in/pool-33701253@N00/?addedcomment=1#comment72157618803046926
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    I can suffer fools
    By listening carefully
    To their drip drip drip
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    Suffer fools suffer
    You were born to it because
    You are so stupid
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    Suffering all fools
    Is a way to leadership
    At times all are fools
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

  • Haiku with a theme of children

    I learn things really
    Fast because days grow shorter
    Was a child’s wisdom
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    Child you could know life
    With only some happy thought
    Wander to your dream
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    Where has childhood gone
    ah, it grew up too and fled
    Simple pleasures gone
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    Nowhere is now here
    a non space is now a place
    For children to be.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/19/08

  • Haiku from Nature

    Orion running
    Perpetually as light
    In the morning sky

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    Rain drops from the sky
    Air refreshed by water
    Cleansing inhaling

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>10/15/07

    Dandelion blossom
    We want green spring garden plant
    Flower leaf dawning

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Though rust falls in the
    Autumn summer will journey
    Through morning bloom

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Happy people dream
    Shiver beneath winter moon
    Snow soon freezes ice

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Tulip stuck in time
    Its potential blossom gone
    Unseen forever

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/04/08

    Water on a shore
    Ice in solid formula
    Amorphously cold

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/14/08

    A hovering kite
    Attentive to the motion
    Field mouse lingering

    [east of Winters, California]

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    Orion arise
    Beloved in the night skies
    Running running on

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    Little lonely
    Thought of brilliant night sky
    Alone in star light

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/16/08

    Autumn grasses yellow
    Wander beneath rusted cloud
    Rising evening moon

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/19/08

    Blue sky the trees say
    The wind resting is breathing
    God less manifest

    The breathe of God
    Flows through creation as wind
    Flowing over all

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/30/08 9:00 a.m.

    Make me smile before
    The bloom of summer morning
    Full from sun journey

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/10/08

    An angel of stone
    Sits praying in the night rain
    Blessings on flowers

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/21/08

    Standing by a creek
    Sound blends with nighttime musing
    Cares flow to the sea

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/21/08

    Baby ducks snoring
    Under a bridge in the fog
    Tiny signs of spring

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>03/19/08

    A simple beauty
    Egrets flying together
    beautiful sky now

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>03/25/08

    The young tree sprouting
    Blue skies in Santa Rosa
    California

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/05/08

    The Blossoms turning
    Spring bees buzz in Sonoma
    California

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/05/08

    Swollen blossoms wait
    Spring is in the air today
    White flowers burst soon

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/07/08

    Happy Spring flowers
    Green with pink yellow blossom
    Fresh colors of life

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    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/03/08

    Summer blazing in
    Heat searing on the faint wind
    While spring’s blossoms wilt

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/15/08

    Smooth paddles of light
    Cause ripples in time and space
    Shadows linger on

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>5/22/08

    Cicada in the
    Palo Verde mimicking
    Arid summer heat
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>06/23/08
    Pungent smell of smoke
    lingering from lightening
    drift of summer fire

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 6/23/08

    Can’t hear that teardrop
    For all we know it’s just a
    Ripple on a stream.

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/14/08

    Poppies drying out
    Fields of parched brown grasses
    Season of summer

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>7/15/08

    A bird on the fence
    Quickly scanning a yellow
    Flower then moves on

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/21/08

    A caterpillar
    Amongst the green tomatoes
    Takes an early share

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/21/08

    Moths migrating in
    The early morning sunlight
    Transient nature

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>   7/26/08

    The fog enshrouds the light
    Mists envelope days passing
    Time moves over love

    All I get from you
    A place for me in your heart
    Where I want to be

    Time moves over love
    Mists of our time in this light
    This morning’s true gift

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>10/08/08

    Sheep sleeping in fog
    Fields of mist veil their slumber
    What things do they count?

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/04/08

    Crisp fall air blowing
    Light shining in lovely trees
    It is great alive

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/11/08

    As the sun it shone
    Upon the vines grapes all gone
    Shadows left alone

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/21/08

    Saline Sea shines blue
    under the desert’s hot sun
    after man’s mistake

    Toxic Acidic Beautiy

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/12/08

    Young hawks shrill calling
    Brighten a sunny spring day
    Like children who smile

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 5/8/09

    Pigeon flying by
    There is a dream like quality
    Wake me in the air.

    Pigeons Fly Low

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/17/09

    The wind through the pines
    And the cottonwood snow
    Warmth of Tahoe sun.

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>  07/05/09

  • How Flags Flutter

    based on and mashed from article Published Santa Rosa Press Democrat :

    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 11:17 a.m.

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    There is a visual record of major conflicts and humanitarian crisis of
    the 21st century that interfaces and enhances the ability to synthesize
    and comprehend complex, digital information created by a historian
    preserving and enhancing the art of hand-papermaking.

    She works with a media artist who incorporates lives of Haitian
    immigrants and chronicles the power of human resistance and endurance
    to explore the intersection between the built and the natural world.

    Who analyzes poverty in efforts designed to improve lives?

    People coming to terms with personal relationships and struggling with
    the changing molecular biology of advanced understanding of the role
    of micro RNAs in the development of cancer and explaining climate
    change. It has to do with the dimensions of conflicts in the Middle
    East through the stories of ordinary families.

    What we really want to know is the behavior of complex systems to
    address such questions as how flags flutter and poets use wordplay as
    puns and rhymes in intricately patterned compositions.

    This calls for an investigative newspaper reporter whose work has led
    to a program that links college volunteers with medical professionals
    to improve health care for ornithologists who use paleontology,
    developmental biology and optical physics to address questions about
    avian development, evolution and behavior. She found an applied
    physicist who is a leader in developing flexible electronic devices
    for schizophrenia or severe mental illness.

    Would we know the answers if there was a physician devoted to
    delivering and improving treatment for infectious diseases in
    Evolutionary biologists whose research focuses on tracing the
    population history of recently extinct or threatened species?

    We’ll need a Biogeochemist who examined the forces that have shaped
    the ocean’s fertility and earth’s climate over the past 2 million
    years and discovered accidents involving the elderly and risk factors
    that contribute to morbidity due to falls and how viewers experience
    and interact with art to protect transportation infrastructure when
    there is a disaster.

  • Somewhere in California

    Somewhere in California a lawn mower whines.

    Somewhere in California an old woman lays dying.

    Somewhere an old man holds her hand.

    Somewhere in California thoughts turn to better times.

    Somewhere in California a lawn mower whines.

    An old man hears the mundane sounds as his loving wife sighs.

    Somewhere in California a neighbor picks apples

    And the Summer turns to Fall.

    Somewhere a young girl dances on chalk marks on the sidewalk.

    A father gazes at her motion as he rakes the leaves.

    Somewhere in California the tasks and trials and joys of a lifetime

    mix with the sounds of the moment.

    Somewhere in California

    Somewhere a young man grows and explores

    Somewhere in California a cool wind blows

    Bringing the breathe of Autumn

    Somewhere a neighbor starts a car and drives off to work.

    Somewhere an old woman’s breathe grows shallow,

    Her mind moves slow.

    Somewhere in California a night bird calls

    Like a sigh at the fresh new dawn.

    Somewhere

    Somewhere in my neighborhood.

    09/21/08

  • Haiku written while Chris drove me to work

    Lexi line the street

    Hillside denizens walk home

    pavers come today

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    I can’t help myself

    haiku just come to my brain

    and burst out anyway

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    California

    land of myth and mundane both

    cal-i-for-ni-a

    06/19/08

  • A different part of the sky

    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?

    05/22/08