Hold Me Autumn

 -------Hold Me Autumn-------

Hold me 

Autumn 

in

The light 

of your becoming.

Let us 

both 

turn gold.

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Everywhere There's Laughter

 -------Everywhere There's Laughter-------

Fruit fall 

and forest chatter

The acorns 

and the geese

High above, 

within, below

Everywhere 

there's laughter

The light will gather

and carry on

As it does 

within a seed.

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Joy Haiku

 -------Joy Haiku-------

Memory, 

a leaf

Falling

I run 

to catch it.

The child 

in me smiles.

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Seasons Haiku

 -------Seasons Haiku-------

Neither cage 

nor chains

Can stop the revolution.

Autumn 

taking form.

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Goldenrod

 -------Goldenrod-------

Leaves turn 

their inner color

As the light begins 

to change.

Like them 

I trust the spirit

That moves us 

each and all

With the earth 

and to the rhythm

Of goldenrod

and Fall

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Heart Medicine

 -------Heart Medicine-------

To appreciate 

the rose hip

Is to give 

ourself to Autumn

To the song and sway 

of the ever-changing

And the medicine 

within.

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Free 'Em All

 -------Free 'Em All-------

There are some 

locked up 

because, like seeds,

they hold a righteous knowledge

A light within 

that shines upon

the source of pain and plunder

A politic 

of food for all,

a dream 

that each can prosper.

To fight for them 

is to prepare

the garden for the seed.

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