Haiku 2011 - #9

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waking ...

light, still light

and the edges, still

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Popping through brambles
chickadee and sparrow
... finding a way.

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Crackling leaves
a downed poplar
... tales and teachings.

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No meanings
no intentions
... petals in the wind.

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Wise and kindly trees
saying softly
... nevermind the crows.

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A tiny bit
of Shambhala
... in clover blossom.

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"Thank you", they said
for something, something
... they didn't say.

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and ... sometimes
the merry crackles of unbound Buddhas -
wise trees ... and winter leaves.

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I walk, sick at the day -
please ... okay,
just one more insight and I'll go.

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Buddha of black shadows
peers from dank woods -
amber eyes reveal.

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Twenty thousand breaths done,
just another day -
twenty thousand lives.

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