… Story continues … “Collaboration and photography”COMING UP: MINDFUL WRITING WORKSHOP. I’m co-hosting a workshop on Haiku for the Turn of the Year with Marion Pernoux, a somatic arts therapist and Reiki master, on December 7 in San Francisco. Click here to learn more and register for our mindful haiku workshop.
Tag: poetry
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Collaboration and photography
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They are cutting down the pine tree on the corner. It was maybe 80’ tall and almost three feet in diameter, perfectly healthy, an old tree full of years. And now it’s mostly wood chips. Today, for the first time in weeks, the sky is blue, and there is more of it than before.
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the first plums
just enough sweetness
for now
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Watch out for that first step
At the Zen group, after sitting for half an hour, we took turns reading from Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen. The key question in the selection we read, on what the practice is: What can you rely on?… Story continues … “”
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Gratitude
The dogs have fleas. The cat keeps pooping on the kitchen floor. The house is of course a mess, and my daughter is graduating from high school tomorrow — assuming she got rid of that F in English.
Meanwhile, my wife is recovering from her 2nd eye surgery in a month, after two months of eye problems that have kept her inside, unable to drive or to be in bright light very much.… Story continues … “Gratitude”
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The world constantly reminds us that nothing is permanent. Nothing escapes destruction.
wisteria in bloom ::
what the old stones don’t tell
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breakfast
the bowl holds five yolks
from three eggs ::
suddenly thinking about
the lives of the chickens
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backyard afternoon ::
a boy’s dreams take flight
(Photo: San Mateo, March 2015)
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evening walk
I get mugged by the moon
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touching the Earth ::
savoring each slice
of the tangerine(with a 🙏to Thich Nhat Hanh)
(photo by Michael Dorausch michaeldorausch.com)