In Love haiku

 -------In Love-------

Our joy 

and sorrow

Are flowers 

of the same earth.

All have roots 

in Love.

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Hold Me Autumn haiku

 -------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-------

Memory, 

a leaf

Falling

I run 

to catch it.

The child 

in me smiles.

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Seasons haiku

 -------Seasons-------

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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Breadth

 -------Breadth-------

A culture that keeps me little,

stunted,

Like a flower in 

unliving ground

Will only see me 

for my color,

Never 

the roots or seed.

For the breadth of I, 

of you, of we

Is a threat 

to this breaking world.

Too much light,

too many dreams,

For the spectacle

to capture.

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Return to Green

 -------Return to Green-------

Dandelion seeds 

and clover

Remind me 

that 

the hurt I carry 

Cannot be fixed 

but rather

Healed 

like fields, 

once stripped to barren 

And left for years 

untended,

Can return to green 

when the flowers 

of dreams 

Blow in 

to land well cared for.

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Summer-Autumn

 -------Summer-Autumn-------

The season  

of the grains 

is turning

Golden 

like the sun

An ode to bread,

to summer-

autumn,

To death

and life beyond.

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Thistles

 -------Thistles-------

The sky is filling 

With clouds 

of seeds

Each, like I, adrifting

With nowhere 

in mind

But a purpose inside

Upon the wind 

adrifting.

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Lughnasadh

 -------Lughnasadh-------

The river sound 

of cottonwoods

Flowing in the wind

Rounding stones 

and the edge of seasons

As Autumn

come August

begins.

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