Tag: poetry

  • To be honored as a poet is the point

    An identity
    Changing, as the point is, to
    Become a poet
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    Meditate on the
    Fabulous new beginning
    Of every new day
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    She is way past woos
    She’s tough and ready for life
    No problem too big.
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    Rocks stacked-25
    Stacking rocks is like
    Haiku – it keeps happening
    And stands here waiting.
    Rocks stacked-12
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    Rusting and tarnish
    Of everyday life give way
    To shining spirit
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    Do it your own way.
    Being a bucket of quirks
    Is the human way.
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    “Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice.”
    E.B. White
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    Winds of change blowing
    The seasons inevitably
    To a new era
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    “Anyone can be cool but it takes practice to be awesome”, said Patrick
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    All that is left is
    A new kind of normal that
    Needs just miracles
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    Summer's end
    Hummingbird zipping
    Back and forth just wondering
    Where summer has gone
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  • Circles turning circles

    Setting off to stick
    My hand into the dragon’s
    Mouth. Rescuing again
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    The forests of San Francisco

    When souls escape from Purgatory
    they drift on a heavenly wind
    No thoughts
    No fears
    No regrets

    When souls move on their way
    A fog descends on life
    The joys and sorrows
    Become as thoughts
    Forgotten in a dream

    When souls rejoin creation
    A circle is reformed
    Fulfilling some lost plan
    For being, just being,
    In an unknown land
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    Another day of war
    Here in silence are eight more
    Faces of the lost.
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    Circles turning circles
    Google plus
    Or just a bicycle?
    (not a haiku but just as funny)
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    Todd Road west 072511-02

    Misty dawn silence
    Harbinger of mystery
    Being discovered
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    Today began well
    Don’t worry about me I’m
    Perfectly good now
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    “People want to believe in heroes and villains, especially when they are frightened. It’s less taxing than the truth.”

    “Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.”

    La Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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    The rhododendrons
    Don’t grow in any desert
    But rosemary does.
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    Two twenty two is
    Not half of four forty four
    Two hours twelve minutes
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  • Accidental voice

    Accidental voice
    Random call from nice stranger
    Redwood Valley man
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    Uh huh. Huh? What’s huh?
    Just a mispronounced mumble
    Huh? Yea, right, uh huh.
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    Turtle in the road
    Traveler across the land
    Arrive in due time
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    “Hard times aren’t going to rule my mind.”

    Gillian Welch
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    I’m look for high ground for building
    Not Russian River bottoms and low lands that flood with ease.
    High ground on rock is where I am.

    (Inspired by Gillian Welch)
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    Now that he is exiled from every place on earth except a desert wilderness he declares a passion for cactus.

    From La Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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    For each one who knows
    The mystery is simple
    Not so much for me.
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  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

    Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood was a book I found while I was looking for something else. It took me six (6) years to read “Letters” the first time. I was convinced that some deep answers lay in the pages. It did hold some revelations which emerged gradually.

    Since I’m reading it this time with notebook nearby I will try to pass along some of the shiny jewels.
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    At our full stature
    We show the joyful spirit
    Of a tender God.
    #lsb
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    Open to the Lord
    Today action through waiting
    Be the instrument
    #lsb
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    As people who want
    True joy we must have faith and
    Seek confident joy
    #lsb
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    The pearl of great price
    This is what you are here for
    Find it now and live
    #lsb
    [For me the “pearl of great price” is the realization that the Creator is within each person and the goal of personhood is to humbly be a channel for the Creator’s action in the world without resisting. See also an earlier view.]
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    Within me in the quietness beyond silence is the assurance of immortal life and the potentiality of peace here and now.
    #lsb page 11
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    I know that as I live this life it is but an echo as compared to the life within: Eternal, immortal, omniscient.
    #lsb page 11
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    Know with confidence that gentleness within is your strength.
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    The very quietness of goodness is undramatic and therefore too often unseen.
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    Beneath the obscure darkness of wisest silence, the hidden jewel.
    Silence beyond silence is the silence He presses through. (Wait upon it and in it.)

    #Lsb
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    The next installment is here.

  • Patience still shines through

    Ghostly white egret
    Made late twilight passage
    A brief glimpse then gone.
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    Long shadows and a
    Golden haze bring on the dusk
    Sonoma sunset
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    I wish I could take
    The mistakes that mystics make
    And understand them
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    Through each of our trials
    Patience still shines through like a
    Glowing corona
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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

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    My morning sunshine

    Showing brightly in her eyes

    This woman I love

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    In the winter sky

    Beyond frigid wisps of clouds

    Orion passes

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    Went on a sudden

    Haiku speed writing journey

    On a homebound bus

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    Geese calling loudly

    Under a gray gloomy sky

    Piercing the quiet

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    Warm fingers wiggle

    Coziest bicycle gloves

    Grasp the writer’s pen

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    Twittering haiku

    Making one hundred forty

    Be five seven five

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    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

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    How fast can he write

    Entertain or occupy

    Amuse someone now

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    Glowing orbs passing

    People driving sending smoke

    Illuminated

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