Category: wind
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‘Wind’ or, ‘Unknowable Essence’
I do not feel, see, hear, taste or smell you, but I feel the heat and searing cold you carry. I see what you move, hear the wind dance with the trees and disturb my sleep. I taste the rain, smell the flowers and cough with your pollen in spring. I know you intimately by…
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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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The leaning tree
You lean ever so slightly towards death Lichen climb your trunk Mushrooms bloom in last year’s leaves Offspring stand tall around you Branches intertwined support you in a wind ___ One night gravity will gather you to itself Neighbors will come stare at your body Marvel at roots grasping air ___ When everyone has gone…
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lazy day haiku
windy afternoon silent shadows dance on blinds leaf hands up applause 4-21-21
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Dancing to the hits on weather channel
Wind picks up Head bangs tree tops Limb lands in yard Dangerous downbeat Two days before equinox End of winter blowout party This rave may last hours Please, no one O.D. 3-18-21
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Gospel tree
not yet ready to lie down among leaves the tree knows death blows kisses in the wind offers its body a piece at a time to the living 2-23-21
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sunrise haiku
because light’s glare blinds stand in the shadows and watch motes dance with the wind 12-7-20
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#1 and 2
#2 dead limb falls in woodsrattles leaves of the livingon it’s way to rest #1 there is an echo wind carries from where it’s been sit and be quiet 10-29-20
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