Coming to Awakening Near You
This summer consciousness
returns and turns the garden
green again. Forgiveness
grows on lilac trees.
Compassion dons the dogwood
with a grace reserved
for saints and lotus leaves.
Imagine what would grow
inside the human heart
and mind if what I am
was just allowed to be.
That sun would light my life
and soon eliminate
reality as I
have always thought to know it.
~Son Rivers 2008
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
3 weeks ago

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Good Job! :)
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