In the dark, rainy dawn,
Birds' singing - Jack Kerouac
Some say BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK.
Others bear witness, hold space for what's next.
- William Kester, March, 2021
The little girl hangs all the ornaments
On the nearest branch - Cor van den Heuvel
Treat old bodies like
Children: Listen, then ask,
"Show me what you can do!"
- Kido Listenbee, March 2021
Trickling from
A village child's sleeve
Cherry blossoms - Issa
Countless arms and legs
All ways of nurture and hold
The village is one - Gen Ju Reithel, March 2021
Cry of a hawk,
Cracking ice across the lake --
Enough of my talk - Billy Collins
Flakes fall noiselessly.
My ears rest in white silence;
My dark thoughts take wing. Anne Steel, March 2021
A child's drawing
The ladder to the sun
Only three steps - Scott Metz
Biking back at dusk
Last light gathers in the sky
Moon glow brings me home
- Gen Ju Reithel, February, 2021
I didn't know
The names of the flowers
And now my garden is gone - Allen Ginsberg
Ocean of sky in blue waves gold
Turning toward and away from the sun
- Kido Listenbee, February 2021
They didn't hire him
So he ate his lunch alone
- The noon whistle - Gary Snyder
Please don't ever think
Anything is out of place
Let loneliness be - Anne Steel, February 2021
Year's end
All corners of this floating world
Swept - Basho
Raindrops like pearls gleam
from twig-ends, off'ring light for
the new year's birthing. - Anne Steel, January 2021
stone before stone buddha - Karma Tenzing Wangchuk
Acorn strikes the roof