Haiku to Rest

-------Haiku to Rest-------

I need to sleep, Child,

to lay my head near flowers,

and let myself go.

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To Plant with Spring

-------To Plant with Spring-------

 To have the chance

we take a chance
and plant our flowers into the weeds.

 Because we are stubborn

and can't listen any more
to the tired doctrines of "master gardeners".

 Because we trust in the beauty and fertility

that is about the roots
of all things.

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A Breath to Remember, A Breath to Forget

-------A Breath to Remember, A Breath to Forget-------

Every day,

   and many times within,

we give up and fall,

   inhale and again begin.

It is a gift we sing,

   through heart, 'tween breath,

to love the other

   through life, through death.

Let's take it honest,

   let us take it slow,

humbled, by every little thing,

   how little we truly know.

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Like Begets Like

-------Like Begets Like-------

The color of our intentions

charge each stroke 

in the forms becoming.

It all makes sense

when likeness 

is realized,

that thinking

sets the act 

to be received,

and each one's separate piece

becomes the Maker's 

self-portrait.

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It's All Been Done

-------It’s All Been Done-------

The same few words have been shared by every poet,

   in the field of the Commons where they were first sown,

today we gather,

   today we make bread,

from their ground and leavened seeds.

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Poems in Your Eyes

-------Poems in Your Eyes-------

Say little, and everything you say will be heard.

Say it from the place that is honest, and everything you cannot say will be understood.

There is so much we could know,

so much we can do and say.

For we are 

Great.

But in our ultimate greatness we are humble;

shy almost behind a leg of the Mystic -

Not wanting to go too far out into the world

before knowing better the world just before us.

We have said it all

already.

Its purpose distilled 

into silence.

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The Sound of Spring

-------The Sound of Spring-------

Goodnight, 

my love.

Take this hollow reed 

and play it for the god 

behind your eyes.

For this world holds nothing more holy 

than what we hold already within.

Within dreams

rests the memory to its pure beginnings,

of the quiet that bore this Spring 

and for us this night to dance.

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Heaven on Earth

-------Heaven on Earth-------

When I can love you with the grace that bird-wings share upon the wind

I will know what it's like to fly.

For now, I can only gather feathers and search the streams for bones

to remember how.

Everyday

I gather less and I put back more.

And when I am left with nothing

I will be right where I began -

Free to fly

and 

completely in love.

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Letting Go Will Let Things Grow

-------Letting Go Will Let Things Grow-------

Natural Farming 

 is an ode to the integrity 

of the human being.

Its success is measured 

 not by the output of the farmer but 

through the purification of their intellect.

The only knowledge necessary then

 for a good life 

is the comprehension of necessity - 

as all else fuels our passions 

 like tinder to a fire 

we are warm enough without.

Integrity is the truth of character,

 an heirloom of righteousness planted among the simple, daily tasks of an honest living,

and the muse of our very nature 

       guiding us back toward the fields.

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Good Night, My Love

-------Good Night, My Love-------

Tonight,

I should let

the Moon

do all

the

talking...

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Easy Goes the Way

-------Easy Goes the Way-------

Shadows take what the light has left

   water rolls easy round a stone

without a plan and for no reason at all

   presence shatters the beast

and we are left dancing on the pieces

   ahead of any thought

in the moment just before everything

we could ever need...

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