tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56034216924335524762024-02-20T12:33:42.458-08:00Standing in the streamJohn Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603421692433552476.post-26284714747522448812013-05-23T12:59:00.004-07:002016-04-12T17:03:27.737-07:00Haiku 2013<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sunlight splits the earth<br />
Our piñata is smiling<br />
Spilling spring flowers<br />
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Sun rays warm the earth<br />
Greeting every garden seed<br />
Stirring their courage<br />
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Sleeping through winter<br />
Holding dreams of bright colors<br />
Watching them come true<br />
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Springtime’s bright passion<br />
Greets every dreaming flower<br />
Drawing them to life<br />
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Spring’s soul of passion<br />
Will awaken ready seeds<br />
Sleeping in warm earth<br />
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Winter moss growing<br />
Softly glowing with green light<br />
Graces my garden<br />
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Winter dreams of spring<br />
Under a blanket of snow<br />
Keeping gardens warm<br />
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Autumn flowers sing<br />
Then they sleep with winter dreams<br />
Till the spring arrives<br />
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Deep within the sea<br />
Brightly colored fish glide by<br />
Joyful in my peace<br />
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Fish within the sea<br />
Bodies gliding close to me<br />
Show me how to swim<br />
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Fish within the sea<br />
Playing with my bubbles free<br />
Leaving me to be<br />
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Calling loud and clear<br />
Bouncing bright across the street<br />
Robin by her nest<br />
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Hammering and shrieks<br />
Piliated woodpecker<br />
Living in the trees<br />
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Robin sings a song<br />
Waiting for the sun to rise<br />
Then she hunts for worms<br />
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Oregon juncos<br />
Searching seeds in my front lawn<br />
Flock among their friends<br />
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Noisy Stellar Jay <br />
Chasing other birds away<br />
Acting brash today<br />
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Eagle soaring high<br />
Far above the other birds<br />
Silent in its space<br />
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Crickets in the field<br />
Chirping like they own the place<br />
Stop when I walk by<br />
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Bare stems of yarrow<br />
Rooted by the riverside<br />
Know that birds pass by<br />
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Leaving the forest<br />
Deer graze upon a hillside<br />
Unafraid of me<br />
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Geese are flying by<br />
Calling from the night time sky<br />
Heading toward fall rye<br />
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Black cap chickadee<br />
Shoulders in on robin's song<br />
Perching by her nest<br />
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Many springtime birds<br />
Joining in on nature’s dance<br />
Sweetly call their mate<br />
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Buses, cars and trucks<br />
Must drive right through the bird songs<br />
As the sun comes up<br />
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We rest so happy<br />
Lying here so warm in bed<br />
Winter birds outside<br />
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If you see a rose<br />
Take the time to smell that rose<br />
It can't be described<br />
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I like watching birds<br />
You like egrets and herons<br />
long necks and long legs<br />
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Snow falls on the ground<br />
Hiding all the flowers we know<br />
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Hiding all the flowers that grow<br />Bare brown ground below<br />
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Ducks swim in the sea<br />
Calling to themselves and me<br />
Standing by this tree<br />
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Wishing for the sun<br />
To warm my heart openly<br />
Through a winter snow<br />
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Nature’s rich grass shirt<br />
Sun shine through its open weave<br />
Stirs my waking soul<br />
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Wanting-for-nothing<br />
Resting by a flowing stream<br />
Hum the river's song<br />
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Longing to be full<br />
Vessel gifting everything<br />
Making room for more<br />
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What is left behind<br />
When our vessel decants life<br />
And we're carried on<br />
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Dry Brown with crisp sound<br />
Bracken in the winter wind<br />
Saving space for more<br />
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Your dreams can hold you<br />
As stars are always shining<br />
Even in full sun<br />
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Midnight’s darkened sky<br />
Listens for the wind to blow<br />
Louder than my breath<br />
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Standing still in time<br />
Filtered from the winter sky<br />
Broken through spring ground<br />
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Written in water<br />
Settled from a winter sky<br />
Flowers break spring ground<br />
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Rain dimpled water<br />
Droplets bubble under trees<br />
Dreaming of a lake<br />
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Soft raindrops falling<br />
Give themselves entirely<br />
To the summer sky<br />
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Feeling the tide's pull<br />
Draw us in and push us on<br />
Through life's mystery<br />
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Footsteps leading through<br />
The landscape of my life<br />
Precious as my breath<br />
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Walking in nature<br />
Silent through a forest grove<br />
Toward the other side<br />
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Unexplainable<br />
A light that shows the way home<br />
Followed by my heart<br />
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Distilled from these tears<br />
Love plays its pure melody<br />
Through a joyous heart<br />
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Only a true heart<br />
In the dark night of a soul<br />
Will guide us toward home<br />
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Bursting into sky<br />
With freedom and awareness<br />
Life's candle burns bright<br />
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Bright blue dragonfly<br />
Restful as a match unlit<br />
Dancing on life's flame<br />
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Grass seeds on tall stalks<br />
Woven through the Nootka Rose<br />
Pink with fragrant blooms<br />
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Sparks of sunlight flash<br />
Riding backs of ocean waves<br />
Laugh to sand's delight<br />
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A flower of love<br />
Is subtle and deep seeded<br />
Washed in warm colors<br />
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The flowers of fear<br />
Shadow bright sun and dark rain<br />
From our true feelings<br />
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Delicate lotus<br />
Floating lightly on the lake<br />
Softly holds our breath<br />
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My heart has written<br />
The song of its love for you<br />
In music I play<br />
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Listening to you<br />
Breathing with the world today<br />
Brings me joyful tears<br />
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Love has found me here<br />
Playing on the magic strings<br />
Of my own guitar<br />
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Opening the door<br />
Life’s wry tingled feelings<br />
Lead us all toward home<br />
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<br />Mottled yellow leaf<br />
Clinging to your tree so bare<br />
Why do you hold on?<br />
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<br />Waves wash through the sand<br />
A gentle rhythm draws us<br />
Deep through shadowed woods<br />
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<br />Water finds the sand<br />
It left high up on the beach<br />
Spring tide long ago<br />
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Listening to the waves<br />
I could hear the shadowed place<br />
That we all came from<br />
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Waiting for the frost<br />
To etch a crystal question<br />
On my open mind<br />
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The snow crust is broken<br />
The moon haze plays on my cheeks<br />
I warm from inside<br />
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Her eyes stir feelings<br />
Looking at her distant world<br />
Yes, I can feel it<br />
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Standing in water<br />
Feeling a new wave arrive<br />
Bare feet on firm sand<br />
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A beaver Swims by<br />
Seeming to notice nothing<br />
Just his endless work<br />
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The crow in the tree<br />
Seems to never work at all<br />
He is here to play<br />
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Morning widgeon land<br />
Softly on dark water<br />
Where the River sleeps<br />
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Two ducks landing<br />
As one together on the pond<br />
Stir the soft water<br />
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Closed and saddened heart<br />
An anchor on life's seabed<br />
Keeps us in this place<br />
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Early morning lake<br />
Rippled by a loon's call<br />
Reflecting the sun<br />
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Fall tree filtered light<br />
An everchanging wind chime<br />
Flickers on the wall<br />
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Watching a sunset<br />
Its bright evening memory<br />
A trace in our mind<br />
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A blessing from the sun<br />
So many weightless sparkles<br />
Laugh on dark water<br />
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Grateful every day<br />
Love sings inside a rain dance<br />
Flowing through our life<br />
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Two white butterflies<br />
Flutter tightly together<br />
High above the path<br />
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Anticipation<br />
Early rays of spring sunshine<br />
Stirs the sleeping earth<br />
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Kneeling on moist ground<br />
Beside an ancient river<br />
Spawning red salmon<br />
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Out on the ocean<br />
Floating in a wooden boat<br />
Whales just passing by<br />
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Tinder dry forest<br />
Fragrant scent of pine<br />
Stirred with quiet footsteps<br />
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Summer sun shining<br />
Its heat unable to hide<br />
Under broken rocks<br />
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Brightly colored leaf<br />
Standing on a forest branch<br />
Singing summer's song<br />
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Standing in the stream<br />
Listening to the river flow<br />
Laughing toward its home<br />
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Smiling at flowers<br />
An unforgotten language<br />
Spoken from the heart<br />
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Waking to the truth<br />
Dust is blowing off the stone<br />
Where we drew our dreams<br />
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Snow from the plum trees<br />
Tumbles down the sidewalk<br />
Playing with the breeze<br />
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We are a shiver<br />
On the surface of life's pond<br />
Just a whispered breeze<br />
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Driven by longing<br />
Finding life's single promise<br />
So easy to keep<br />
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Last night's crescent moon<br />
Must have spilled upon the stars<br />
Sparkled morning dew<br />
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The rain and the wind<br />
Have been searching everywhere<br />
No place left to hide<br />
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Storm cast ocean waves<br />
Shattered on the rocky shore<br />
Mix in with the rain<br />
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Dry whistle of wind<br />
Rushing with the ocean breeze<br />
Finds a broken wave<br />
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Willingness aside<br />
I have no other interest<br />
Bonding with your soul<br />
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Waiting for the sky<br />
As the wind is blowing by<br />
Over these mountains<br />
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Voices in the hall<br />
Sense a joyful arrival<br />
Children from their youth<br />
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Yesterday has passed<br />
Tomorrow has not arrived<br />
Plum tree is in bloom<br />
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Finding my wonder<br />
I’ve always known this place<br />
Love lives in my heart<br />
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Ocean waves calling<br />
On their back or their bellies<br />
White froth over blue<br />
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Listening to you<br />
I find a truth in my heart<br />
Breathing in sweet air<br />
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Feeling my footsteps<br />
Sealing soft mud with sweet earth<br />
Beautifully blind<br />
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Wine in its bottle<br />
Such a confident secret<br />
Colored so deeply<br />
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Loosing your body<br />
Running with the summer wind<br />
Heart broken open<br />
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Haikus speak softly<br />
Inner and outer journeys<br />
Are walked together<br />
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Its always that way<br />
Inner and outer journeys<br />
Travel together<br />
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Haikus build rainbows<br />
Bridging two worlds together<br />
Inner and outer<br />
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A conversation<br />
Between inside and outside<br />
Bright sparkles of light<br />
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In quiet water<br />
Silver fish in the river<br />
Flash bright in the sun<br />
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Outer and inner<br />
Moving their feet and their words<br />
Travel together<br />
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Objects and shadows<br />
Like our thoughts and our visions <br />
Seeking each other<br />
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Our experience<br />
On the inside or outside <br />
Makes its own shadow<br />
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The moon in darkness<br />
Still sweeps across the sky<br />
Reflecting the truth<br />
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The moon in darkness<br />
Still sweeps across the sky<br />
Truth in clear silence<br />
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The moon in darkness<br />
Still sweeps across the sky<br />
Smiling on plum trees<br />
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Waiting for nothing<br />
Just delivers it sooner<br />
Than anything else<br />
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Silence stills my breath<br />
Knowing I am fully whole<br />
In this quiet nest<br />
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Whispers from the past<br />
Can not take us far from here<br />
Holding with our heart<br />
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Cool summer morning<br />
Just before the sun heats up<br />
Swimming in the lake<br />
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If you only knew<br />
Just how close beneath my feet<br />
I felt heaven shift<br />
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If you only knew<br />
How often I thought of you<br />
In my wishing mind<br />
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Awash in white surf<br />
Herring have found their purpose<br />
Spawning on brown kelp<br />
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Seething ocean mass<br />
Boiling in the darkened sea<br />
Herring’s silver sides<br />
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Drawn together<br />
Tightly in a herring ball<br />
Fear rolls inside out<br />
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Seething ocean mass<br />
Boiling in the darkened sea<br />
Herring flash below<br />
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Drawn together<br />
Herring in a living ball<br />
Fear rolls inside out<br />
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These unblinking eyes<br />
Seem urgent with excitement<br />
In their spawning sea<br />
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Seagulls call with glee<br />
Stiff and empty herring swirl<br />
In a broken sea<br />
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So wet and lovely<br />
Your saturated vision<br />
Of this precious life<br />
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Winter's precious soul<br />
Rests along the path we walk<br />
Under autumn leaves<br />
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Our deepest purpose<br />
Unwavering in the wind<br />
So firmly rooted<br />
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How many lifetimes<br />
Have we felt our purpose stand <br />
Still in the spring breeze<br />
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How many lifetimes<br />
Weathered in the winter rain<br />
Will our purpose stand<br />
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Sweet winter wood smoke<br />
Sleeping with the forest trees<br />
Drifts into our dreams<br />
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Such sweet memories<br />
Wood smoke tangled in tall trees<br />
Changing the landscape<br />
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Dark ribbons of wave<br />
Silently lift winter birds<br />
Near the morning's beach<br />
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Dark and then silver<br />
Twirling ribbons of ocean<br />
Gather round our feet<br />
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Approaching the beach<br />
Twisting ribbons of water<br />
Know me where I stand<br />
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I am a blind man<br />
Finding freedom in my breath<br />
Standing here with you<br />
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Distant geese calling<br />
Chasing spring across the sky<br />
Draw me from my sleep<br />
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Large paper thin moon<br />
Still bright in the morning sky<br />
Watching restless clouds<br />
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Thin shaving of truth<br />
High up in the morning sky<br />
Round and still and bright<br />
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Noticing nature<br />
Glint below an ocean wave<br />
Like an autumn's leaf<br />
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Fallen autumn leaves<br />
Helping all their trees to rest<br />
Through the winter’s night<br />
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John Millarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02836267752750889266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603421692433552476.post-68994229628897661012009-02-23T11:48:00.000-08:002013-05-23T13:02:32.855-07:00Haiku Poems<div align="center">
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A wave meets the shore<br />
Spilling water up the beach<br />
Sinking through the sand<br />
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Running one by one<br />
Reflecting off wet sandstone<br />
Waves head out again<br />
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Marsh grass summer breeze<br />
Woven with the ocean’s scent<br />
My favorite shirt<br />
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A rusty old pump<br />
Meters its play with our song<br />
Crystal clear water<br />
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Life’s real adventure<br />
Is stirred at every foot-fall<br />
Breathed with every breath<br />
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Of red and purple flowers<br />
Wash among the trees<br />
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Deeply rooted tree<br />
Steady on a grassy field<br />
Floating on flowers<br />
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Rain only feels wet<br />
When it falls onto our skin<br />
Our mind remembers<br />
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Low clouds move slowly<br />
Against the backdrop of gray<br />
Changing as they go<br />
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That tree has a name<br />
Tree Too Tall To See The Top<br />
Is how we know it<br />
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Broken uprooted<br />
Violently taken from life<br />
Wishing differently<br />
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Finding my window open<br />
Offers a greeting<br />
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Full red open rose<br />
Perfumed on your plant’s green sleeve<br />
Fine summer fashion<br />
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Dusty residue<br />
Raindrops on my window pane<br />
Obscurring the view<br />
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We stopped going<br />
But grass and trees kept growing<br />
Since we last were here<br />
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Out shone by the sun<br />
Chalk white moon in morning light<br />
Shines full of passion<br />
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Summer fish struggles<br />
Body broken by a bird<br />
What will you do now<br />
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Feeding salmon fry<br />
Sew a sweet scented blanket<br />
To their summer pond<br />
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Round granite boulders<br />
Polished by a mountain stream<br />
Beautiful unique<br />
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Music meets the light<br />
Excitement charges the air<br />
At your open door<br />
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Native summer rose<br />
Riding with the ocean breeze<br />
Greets my open heart<br />
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A memory stirred<br />
Then a feeling is set free<br />
It remembers me<br />
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Crisp golden apple<br />
Ripened by the summer sun<br />
Just tugged from its branch<br />
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Sunshine catches rain<br />
In an endless game of chase<br />
Calling out - Rainbow!<br />
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A double rainbow<br />
Holds hope for two survivors<br />
Lost in last nights storm<br />
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Just for an instant<br />
Reflection's veil withdrew<br />
Letting me see through<br />
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Plain gray winter moth<br />
Unnoticed in the closet<br />
Wearing my best suit<br />
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My path leads me here<br />
It seems clear that I must go<br />
Just my weightless soul<br />
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Lifeless winter bark<br />
Breaks with buds that blush with spring<br />
Bursting with new dreams<br />
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Footprints cast in mud<br />
Set and dry in broken ground<br />
Buried by the sand<br />
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Our sense of purpose<br />
Defines much of life’s journey<br />
Its treasures as well<br />
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Sun seasoned with warmth<br />
Urges the ground to divide<br />
Spilling spring flowers<br />
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Running down the beach<br />
Chester charts a broken path<br />
Scattering the birds<br />
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Family photograph<br />
So many smiling faces<br />
Sometimes are they sad?<br />
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Rising at greeting<br />
Waves pass straight through at meeting<br />
Their own reflection<br />
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Log bleaching in sun<br />
Your body broken branchless<br />
Lost from your forest<br />
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Diamonds dance lightly<br />
Brightly reflecting the sun<br />
Stream takes no notice<br />
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The flowers and leaves<br />
Buds that will burst on their trees<br />
Move toward their moment<br />
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Awakening heart<br />
In a world that surrounds me<br />
Now touching my soul<br />
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Brown skin and bright eyes<br />
With a warm smile that’s so wide<br />
You are beautiful<br />
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I love my children<br />
They fold meaning into life<br />
Beyond good teachers<br />
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Wind stole the bird song<br />
Rain silenced the summer grass<br />
Winter shadows stretch<br />
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Sand is everywhere<br />
That is how a rock wanders<br />
In tiny pieces<br />
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Life is just as real<br />
Inside a salty tide pool<br />
As the open sea<br />
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The moss and the tree<br />
Growing together as one<br />
Balanced in their need<br />
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Sea anemone<br />
Unfolded in its tide pool<br />
Unafraid of fish<br />
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Starfish under rock<br />
Fashoning your travel plans<br />
For the tide’s return<br />
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Senses awaken<br />
To the the fragrant Ocean breeze<br />
Rustling dry grass<br />
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Gentle disturbance<br />
Disconnects parts from the whole<br />
That slowly float back<br />
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Mirror images<br />
Hard mountain /\ soft mountain<br />
Both touching the pond<br />
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Doing as she must<br />
Patience is a morning dove<br />
Tending to her nest<br />
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Patient drum of life<br />
Your ever-present heart beat<br />
I play back to you<br />
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Real life adventure<br />
Lies under every foot-fall<br />
Inside every breath<br />
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I must keep it bright<br />
As I walk along this path<br />
Fragile little flame<br />
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The oak tree stands strong<br />
Steady in its grassy field<br />
Washed in spring flowers<br />
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Old memories wake<br />
As I walk through this place<br />
Where I slept a child<br />
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Bright yet so serene<br />
The tide of colored flowers<br />
Under gentle cows<br />
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We leave our children<br />
What we give to them right now<br />
When we touch their soul<br />
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Then I realized<br />
If I free a butterfly<br />
So must I a soul<br />
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Grinding up the beans<br />
Putting water in the pot<br />
Smell the coffee brew<br />
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Love is not wasted<br />
Wherever it springs to life<br />
It changes our world<br />
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Wise medicine man<br />
Help our hearts open to feel<br />
The life around us<br />
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Let me feel and see<br />
The truth that belongs to me<br />
Hidden in this mist<br />
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There are many paths<br />
That can lead to the same place<br />
Where we are set free<br />
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An eagle’s feather<br />
Circles down toward the ground<br />
Captured by a wave<br />
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Rock in the water<br />
Did you choose this place to rest<br />
Silent for so long<br />
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Where did it come from<br />
Does boulder ever wonder<br />
Where is it going<br />
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So very ancient<br />
You were here before the ice<br />
Can you remember<br />
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Combing through the mist<br />
You stood here before the ice<br />
So far before time<br />
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The life force in you<br />
Is the same as is in me<br />
We just look different<br />
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A steady heart beat<br />
Deep in an ancient forest<br />
Is it yours or mine<br />
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I am so happy<br />
Just to be here with you now<br />
Walking together<br />
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Rock earth water tree<br />
Voices from the landscape Call<br />
Through the morning mist<br />
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My clumsy presence<br />
Unnoticed out of water<br />
To fish as they spawn<br />
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Hold your hands right here<br />
Can you feel the tree straining<br />
Dancing with the wind<br />
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Yes they all have names<br />
But they won’t come when they’re called<br />
These trees are stubborn<br />
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Alive in this place<br />
One drum among so many<br />
That play the same song<br />
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Steelhead returning<br />
Already paired with a mate<br />
Preparing to spawn<br />
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My heart is beating<br />
Yet I find nothing to say<br />
Struck down like these trees<br />
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Eagle must take it<br />
But salmon needs to be free<br />
Fragmenting to eggs<br />
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Web spun by spider<br />
Its sagging catch of diamonds<br />
Sun on autumn dew<br />
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Hiding in the world<br />
On the trunk of a huge fir<br />
A small moth is still<br />
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Past history takes flight<br />
Like a raven from its branch<br />
Leaving no shadow<br />
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Watching silently<br />
Smoke rising from the embers<br />
Dancing with my thoughts<br />
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Rising cloud of mist<br />
Magic song of silver breath<br />
Whale returns below<br />
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Your breath and my breath<br />
Merging over the water<br />
A silent embrace<br />
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Your scent lingers here<br />
Tangled in moonlit branches<br />
Of flowering plum<br />
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Two dancing flames touch<br />
Combining then withdrawing<br />
Each changed forever<br />
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Breathe old flames to life<br />
The passionate reunion<br />
Of separate souls<br />
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Crooked legged crow<br />
Broken gait so hard to watch<br />
Beautiful in flight<br />
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I wait and wonder<br />
Is this friendship meant to be<br />
Hoping and wishing<br />
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Sleeping mountain air<br />
Curling round my feather bed<br />
Hiding from the frost<br />
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Songs so beautiful<br />
What would ever make them fight<br />
Three birds on a branch<br />
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When I walk with you<br />
I feel your love for this land<br />
And share that with you<br />
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Finding small treasures<br />
Simple unexpected gifts<br />
Enriching our life<br />
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Sometimes a problem<br />
Expected as an outcome<br />
Just fails to arrive<br />
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Trees don't get confused<br />
If it is an apple tree<br />
Then it grows apples<br />
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When I was a child<br />
A yellow climbing rose grew<br />
Up past my window<br />
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Autumn Orange Rose<br />
Spring Bloom with Summer Perfume<br />
Better than Ever<br />
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Try to smell the rose<br />
Just for what it is and not<br />
For what we wish it were<br />
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Daisies and clover<br />
Days after the lawn is cut<br />
Return like a tide<br />
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Uncomfortable<br />
Fractured ground between good friends<br />
How deep this fissure<br />
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Evaporating<br />
Pure water from a raindrop<br />
Leaves its dust behind<br />
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It has burst open<br />
A great gray cloud of sadness<br />
I feel it deeply<br />
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The rustle of leaves<br />
Rises and falls with the breeze<br />
That seals my eyes shut<br />
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Messenger of rain<br />
Sweet wind outrunning the storm<br />
Spill a stolen drop<br />
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Once first needs are met<br />
I can hear and see and feel<br />
New and gentle things<br />
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Warm scent of dry pine<br />
Over the splash of rainbow<br />
Under call of hawk<br />
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Crystals in a cloud<br />
Looking down from far above<br />
Know their winding stream<br />
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This force that draws us<br />
Like a raindrop to its stream<br />
Irresistible<br />
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Wider and deeper<br />
Flows the stream that we follow<br />
On our path through life<br />
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The paper thin moon<br />
A chalky white reflection<br />
Above morning sky<br />
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Frog bounces his call<br />
Across a glassy calm pond<br />
Hidden in the trees<br />
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Moment to moment<br />
Feeling love and compassion<br />
Sunshine and raindrops<br />
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Sweet warm blackberries<br />
Weighing down their summer canes<br />
Stained with summer's height<br />
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Life needs us to choose<br />
With each footstep that we make<br />
The sun or the moon<br />
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Teaming with Life<br />
Brewing in a summer pond<br />
Bright new beginnings<br />
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Bright star draws my eye<br />
Bringing light to the moment<br />
Round-belly moon laughs<br />
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Sweet Cottonwood scent<br />
Heavy in the morning mist<br />
Sleeps on the red marsh<br />
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Found by morning's light<br />
Marble statue warms to life<br />
Air like silk on skin<br />
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Butterfly in flight<br />
Vulnerable with beauty<br />
Finds an open door<br />
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A gentle knowing<br />
It has been there all the time<br />
The warmth and the light<br />
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Missing your warm touch<br />
I opened the seaside door<br />
To a summer sun<br />
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Ask the garden sun<br />
What adventures might be there<br />
Where the breeze comes from<br />
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Knowing you are there<br />
I float thistle-down on breeze<br />
Bringing you this rose<br />
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Butterfly emerged<br />
From a tattered chrysalis<br />
Freedom in her heart<br />
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Unable to sleep<br />
I let shadows play for me<br />
On my moonlit wall<br />
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Your scent still lingers<br />
Even though the shadow’s changed<br />
Where I lay my head<br />
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Summer adventure<br />
My magic oar stirs the clouds<br />
Round my wooden boat<br />
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Floating on water<br />
Flat shimmering images<br />
scatter at my touch<br />
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My ship rules this pond<br />
And all things that live here<br />
In my adventure<br />
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Just for a second<br />
I saw through the reflection<br />
To another world<br />
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I need to return<br />
And float my boat on that pond<br />
Where I knew the truth<br />
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Seeking to retrieve<br />
Something that was left behind<br />
In that other world<br />
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Resting on the shore<br />
At a perfectly shaped beach<br />
Sitting beside you<br />
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Colors on fall leaves<br />
Even in the autumn rain<br />
Will not wash away<br />
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This ancient forest<br />
Lives in a deeper silence<br />
Can you feel its truth<br />
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Mountain’s hem of cloud<br />
Is dragging through its forest<br />
Misting every tree<br />
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Forest and the fish<br />
Together changing color<br />
Bright in autumn’s rise<br />
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Autumn excitement<br />
Spending all its energy<br />
Celebrating life<br />
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Golden Autumn Leaf<br />
Did you see me standing here<br />
Watching as you fell<br />
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My path leads me here<br />
It seems clear that I must go<br />
Just my weightless soul<br />
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Cold and still drowsy<br />
A timeless land slowly stirs<br />
To winter's morning<br />
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A young woman's breath<br />
Arrested for one moment<br />
Longing for her life<br />
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Fashioning new dreams<br />
To float out onto the lake<br />
Settle where they will<br />
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Young tree standing still<br />
At the foot of family<br />
Listening to birds<br />
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Late Autumn guardian<br />
Standing with our family<br />
Over fallen leaves<br />
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Young forest master<br />
stands in a circle of friends<br />
learning of their ways<br />
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Emperor of kings<br />
This tree among the forest<br />
Unaware of time<br />
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Forest guardian<br />
Standing on a mossy floor<br />
Makes a careful step<br />
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On this wooden bench<br />
I sit among spring daisies<br />
All facing the sun<br />
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See the western sky<br />
The sun sizzles in the sea<br />
While clouds burn orange<br />
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Peaceful night river<br />
Lightly floats the reflection<br />
Of my silver moon<br />
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In yesterday’s sun<br />
I never did imagine<br />
Snow would fall today<br />
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Dreamless winter bark<br />
Cracked by buds that blush with spring<br />
Full of new life<br />
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Goodnight and sleep well<br />
Peaceful dreams in neverland<br />
Wrapped in violet light<br />
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Autumn's bright colors<br />
Richer in the day's last light<br />
Pale before the moon<br />
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Wet and winter blue<br />
Ancient island washed by sea<br />
Draped in evening sky<br />
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Your garden fountain<br />
Splashes a joyful welcome<br />
Greeting all who come<br />
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Old Friends together<br />
Excitedly share new things<br />
In the sun's warm light<br />
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Passion reflecting<br />
The colored trees of autumn<br />
Surrounding the pond<br />
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Surrender yourself<br />
To the winds of your seasons<br />
Delight the moon's tide<br />
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Like a symphony<br />
The world is full of movement<br />
Bathing us in change<br />
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On winter’s white breath<br />
The soft whistles of widgeon<br />
Scatter fallen leaves<br />
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White sound of water<br />
Rushing over river rocks<br />
Steals the forest’s voice<br />
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Cold river water<br />
Smoothing ancient river rock<br />
Glistens in the sun<br />
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Waving in winter<br />
The golden dry river grass<br />
Rustles to the sun<br />
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