Category: trees
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haikus of autumn
before dawn shatters its lamp on the edge of the sky grey night shimmers blue sit in the half-light listen to leaves rattle death as they leap in air wheezing school bus and noisy garbage truck disturbs quiet solitude lined up side-by-side children and olive trash cans wait to be emptied dry cellulose leaves gathered…
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Innocent bystander
On a sidewalk where song only shakes stained glass Between breakfast and lunch on Sundays Rooted in the churchyard cemetery, hung over A brick wall built to keep out unbelievers A tree hands me a note on a blood red leaf Soul skeletons are attempting an escape Unwilling to be an accomplice to a prison…
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meditation in prime numbers, #17
in crowded empty spaces thick among tall trees grow shadows cool and dark 10-24-21
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Patient karma waits for over 50 years haiku
car through my leaf piles grab a rake and reconstruct Karma makes me smile 10-20-21
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yellow haiku in a blue cup
morning runs away plays with light among the trees I sip coffee…cold 10-14-21
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runaway leaf
dangled on a spider’s thread simple shape no forking fingered hand golden spinning blade in angled early light last night’s descent caught mid-flight upon a fiber hold still I’ll untangle you help you land 10-13-21
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Fall festival
day leans away from light mushrooms brown to rot gather high the firewood winter waits for solstice moon moss lies green upon the hill I think I’ll rake some leaves 10-12-21
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seventeen syllables of potentiality
within one acorn forests patiently await with bushels of nuts 10-12-21
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Solstice
No wind to stir and drive the rain under bottom split rails long dry lines fence the ground Tired yellow leaves leap into warm autumn air tilting leisurely as they fall Green trees patiently wait until light no longer cooks carbon candy I do not know which way is best the first have friends to…
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haiku meditation of a dead branch awaiting rain
tired limb begs the rain to send Kevorkian winds end this dangling death 9-20-21
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