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HAIKU INSPIRED POETRY AND PHOTOS

Forgive 05/09/2008

Filed under: Early Work, Grasping, Haiku Inspired — Wind @ 1:52 pm
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I am sorry, please,
forgive me for hurting you
my ego is mean.

Allow reparation
in the now and forever
performing better.

So hard to be
humble when pride
is free with my speech.

Messages in dreams
be more loving toward friends
put Leo pride down.

A tight leash
It’s always a tug of war
when wearing a collar.

 

Empty 05/06/2008

Filed under: Early Work — Wind @ 12:18 pm
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The empty floating bowl
my mind -
the yellow moon
my tides -
I am drawing near
pulling away…

I choose a light voice
it comes when called
offering songs and poetry.

My silence contains shadows lurking within quiet crevices
praying for mercy between dreams
the struggle with solitude
caught and becoming the web
I linger, I justify, I succumb to fear.

Who succumbs?
It’s the ego who fights
Words eventually tire
Creation gets dull and offers no inspiration…

Stripped naked, turning to the deathless glow
I see doors opening to my soul
at the place where my humble heart sits
a pause, a breath, and a shift.

As a child who knows only devotion and care
(even in her sleep)
We are that yellow moon floating there
on a pulsing sea cradled by mountains
chanting still with the Ancients.