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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Stillness and fruition:
Fluffy willow seeds, Floating in all directions – Strawberries ripen.
Dance of life and death:
Beside a wheat field, Holly blue butterflies dance – Blue egg lies broken.
Posted in poetry
Tagged broken egg, butterflies, dance of life and death, haiku, Nataraj, poetry, Shiva
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Simple pleasures:
Ripe red strawberry, Plucked directly from the plant – Bursting with flavour.
Posted in poetry
Tagged flavour, haiku, hunter gatherers, joy, picking strawberries, poetry, simple pleasures, strawberry
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Lifeblood:
The sun sets blood-red, At a sharp bend in the road – Peony flowers.
Circulation:
On the edge of town, In the river, a petal – Yellow Irises.
Posted in poetry
Tagged borders, edge lands, floating, flowing, haiku, journeys, moving borders, petals, poetry, town and country, yellow flag, yellow irises
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Lost youth:
Bright, young ginkgo leaves, Collecting in the gutter – Blown by a strong wind.
Posted in poetry
Tagged ginkgo leaves, haiku, homelessness, lost youth, no future, poetry, runaways, scrap heap, strong forces, wind, young
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Discovery:
Ox-eye daisies dance, On the verge of something great – They answer the wind.
Posted in poetry
Tagged being, dance, discovering true nature, flowers in the wind, fulfillment, haiku, harmony, living, Ox-eye daisies, poetry, responding, Tao, Zen
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Busy-ness:
Screams from the rooftops, The sound of returning swifts – Falling on deaf ears.
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Tagged busyness, closed ears, deaf ears, haiku, not listening, poetry, screaming swifts, unaware, unnoticed
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