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Tag: Poems

  • Weary summer

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    Summer’s holiday
    The rushing Russian River
    Loss of one so dear.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/07/11

    What kind of debt is that
    When a man gives his life
    Trying to save the woman he loves.
    What kind of debt must she feel
    And what legacy has he created
    A debt is not guilt
    It is an obligation to honor
    By giving a full life.

    Qué clase de deuda es
    que Cuando un hombre da su vida
    que Trata de guardar la mujer que adora.
    Qué clase de deuda debe se siente Y lo
    que legado tiene creó UNA deuda no es culpa
    es una obligación de honorar dando una
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/12/11

    Summer front yard
    The green sprigs of spring
    Are now dry stalks of summer
    Like youth’s ambition
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/07/11

    Ask humility
    A life in purgatory
    Shows me the hard way
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/07/11

    Billowing more clouds
    Does the wind get tired out there
    Going with the flow?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/12/11

    Masochistic fool
    Who would ever buy a cat?
    Asking for trouble
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/12/11

  • Late May and June 2011 Haiku Notebook

    Off to the east shone
    A glistening pyramid
    Sunset reflection
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/21/11

    We set out for once
    To be spontaneous
    We’ll plan that again
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/21/11

    I arrived safely
    Am ensconced in a blue chair
    Thus Monday begins
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/23/11

    Try to have some fun
    Responses could be in haiku
    Make thinking funner.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/23/11

    The only thing we
    Can see moving fast is the
    Clouds in the blue sky
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 5/25/11

    On Mars the spirit
    Finally faded and failed.
    On Earth it’s still here
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/26/11

    “What one comes to understand in the pursuit of science
    is the vastness of our ignorance.”
    David Eagleman, author of Incognito, The secret lives of the brain.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/26/11

    Our love falls off as
    Petals in the winds of time
    Lose their blessed scent
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/01/11

    Love falls in the wind
    Like dried leaves blown along
    By forces of time.
    121108 Winter light 10
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/01/11

    The forest green bus
    Moving up and down the road
    Freedom comes or not
    081303 Chuckwalla State Prison bus
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/01/11

    Loves gentle moment
    Awaiting some refreshment
    Hiding in a smile
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/01/11

    An angel spread her
    Wings and flew away today
    To a better place
    (Thank you Kate Davis-Shabel for all you did)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/02/11

    White clouds pretty day
    Silver lining if ever
    I saw one nearby.
    Sprinklers in the clouds
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/02/11

    My favorite things
    Together in the same place
    Haiku on GovLoop
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/03/11

    Here we sit typing
    Just hangin’ out in the fog
    Summertime city
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/06/11

    Nothing happening
    Nothing to report right now.
    Up to the minute.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/10/11

    Like running ideas
    Mysterious mid day forms
    Shadows of the steam
    (upon observing steam shadows off the top of UCSF)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/15/11

    A fresh white poppy
    Flowers in the morning light
    California
    A white poppy -Flowers in the morning light
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/17/11

    Fog rolls in the bay
    Hiding the golden gate bridge
    Like words hiding truth
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/19/11

    Summer has solstice
    Longest day light of the year
    Warming heart and soul
    Longest day light
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/21/11

    You can always be
    Unclad under the solstice
    Moon – Natural wonder
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/21/11

    On solstice or not
    San Francisco summer now
    Fog just rolling in
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/21/11

    Spiritual care
    Comes in to raise the spirits
    If they are too low
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/22/11

    Smiling, she said, “You’re
    Funny but not amusing.
    Just peculiar.”
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/11

    I saw two hawks today.
    One came down
    And stood on the ground
    To see me.
    I asked, “Where have you been?
    My hope has flown away.”
    The hawk stared,
    Then looked away,
    Shuffling his feet
    Like the ground was not where he wanted to stay.
    The second hawk it glided by
    And flapped impatiently.
    The hawk on the ground
    Just looked around
    But failed to answer me.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/27/11

    The hawk flew higher
    Up through fog ever rising
    To reach sun soaked sky.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/29/11

    A few inspired by the Time Paradox, by Zimbardo & Boyd

    Every life is a
    Race with time and a battle
    Against not being.

    Life is a race with,
    And a battle against, time
    Marvel and wonder.

    Whenever we look
    Happiness is the present
    Choice in ideal time
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/29/11

    Excellent idea
    Play for a day, say hooray
    Yippee skippy do!
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/29/11

    I just had to say
    A okay, okie dokey
    Like a big goof ball
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/29/11

  • Patience still shines through

    Ghostly white egret
    Made late twilight passage
    A brief glimpse then gone.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/30/11

    Long shadows and a
    Golden haze bring on the dusk
    Sonoma sunset
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/08/11

    I wish I could take
    The mistakes that mystics make
    And understand them
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/20/11

    Through each of our trials
    Patience still shines through like a
    Glowing corona
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/21/11

  • We encounter things

    Turkeys gobbling
    While crows are cawing nearby
    Morning at my house.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/13/10

    We encounter things
    So strange yet still so common
    Children’s services
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/14/10

    Haiku for you.
    petaluma river

    Sky in the water
    Clouds turn blue on a river
    like boats lingering.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/15/10

    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
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/01/10

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

  • 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
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    The eyes cannot see
    What the soul reveals each time
    Breathe flows in and out
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/07

    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
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/26/08

    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

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/30/08

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

    Those ones who observe
    Watching justice slide away
    Undone by process
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/11/04

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

    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
    CIMG0270.JPG
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/03/08

    Aldous Huxley
    optimistic concurrence
    we want avoidance
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/06/08

    A freeway canyon
    Over Santa Rosa creek
    Is what we have now
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Traffic sputtering
    Around the old courthouse square
    Drive away instead
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Bicycles blazing
    Catch the imagination
    Of Santa Rosa
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

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

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

    Keep your eyes open
    Keep your mouth shut, all the time
    Keep your hands moving

    Attributed to Cindy Wolf
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/12/08

    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/
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/02/08

    The pervasiveness
    of fear – it’s like poison on
    anyone’s weary brain
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    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)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    Smiles flashing boldly
    Moments of pure joy in life
    Like a mockingbird
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/15/08

    Transfer behind a
    Temporary intention
    Lack of commitment
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/27/08

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

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

    Barak Obama
    Hope embodied in a man
    A new president
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    Pictures of a room
    Another classroom landscape
    Student space to learn
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Deliberate haste
    Is moving quickly slowly
    Barak Obama
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Our Acquisitions
    Are not Transformational
    Relationships are
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/24/09

    the blessed get to
    pay for the mistakes of the
    well off and the poor
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/08/09

    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
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/25/09

    I can suffer fools
    By listening carefully
    To their drip drip drip
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffer fools suffer
    You were born to it because
    You are so stupid
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffering all fools
    Is a way to leadership
    At times all are fools
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

  • haiku does not wait

    haiku does not wait
    for feeble distracted mind
    a Palm remembers
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/04/08

    Just imagining
    an uncopyrightable
    monosyllable
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/18/08

    Ask about our roof
    My house still there up above
    Creaks but later here
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/10/08

    I can’t help myself
    It just comes naturally
    Seeing things this way
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    Five five five five five
    Seven seven seventy
    Fifty five fifty
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    Broken derailer
    It is a rough ride sometimes
    Pedaling nowhere
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/23/08

    It’s not possible
    To be wrong about haiku
    Except for the length
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/07/08

    Toes at attention
    Eyebrows are slightly furrowed
    Haiku on the way
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/07/08

    Weta bobosee
    Seba tewabo sese
    Bowe webo se
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/22/08

    Pungent smell of smoke
    Lingering of lightening
    Expressed as fire
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/15/08

    A moment of joy
    Every day it happens too
    With everything else.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/08
    Pickles pickles pick
    salty spicy I love it
    plenty of pickles

    Pickles all day long
    lunch dinner even breakfast
    Oh I love her so

    [from the bus ride]
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    I give away things
    most valuable to me
    Altruism is good
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/20/08

    dark shadow and light
    green clarity goes to blue
    lack of clarity

    leaf

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/04/09

    Angels in our heart
    Stayed in the foggy ground
    Memories hold true
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/28/09

  • Haiku with a theme of children

    I learn things really
    Fast because days grow shorter
    Was a child’s wisdom
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/07

    Child you could know life
    With only some happy thought
    Wander to your dream
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/24/08

    Where has childhood gone
    ah, it grew up too and fled
    Simple pleasures gone
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/04/08

    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

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/01/07

    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]

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

    Orion arise
    Beloved in the night skies
    Running running on

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

    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

    IMG_0513.JPG

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>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