Water and soil, add seed and time.

 

Cabin in Jämtland, Norrsjö, Sweden. 

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Haibun: We start with water and soil. 

Water and soil, add seed and time. The world can produce what we need to eat, but what can we give to the world in return? Our loving kindness. Our hearts. To tend with care and reverence. 

We put seed in soil

and in time a new life forms-

the universe, so lovely.

james lee jobe

Link: Tonight, a poem by Agha Shahid Ali

Hate comes from fear and ignorance. It's the ideology of terrorism. 

Darshpreet Singh 

Two Poems by Ryōkan Taigu, 1758-1831

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Who says my poems are poems?

They aren't poems at all. 

Only when you understand my poems aren't poems 

can we talk poetry. 

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Above heaven 

big winds 

Jazz: Sonny Rollins, My One And Only Love

Haibun: Like a hobo of old. Sort of. 

New Orleans, over forty years ago as I write this. I lived in the French Quarter,

and several times a day a freight train passed between Jackson Square and

the Mississippi River, moving very slowly because of all the tourists there. Since

I was young and usually in a hurry, I would often grab the ladder of a passing

boxcar, step up, and ride for a few blocks. As crowded as the busy city was,

I never saw anyone else doing this. 

Deep and wide, so strong;

the ancient Mississippi.

A lone train horn blast.

james lee jobe

We must first directly comprehend the spiritual reason of things and then let us with this insight look upon things that are about us. 

Soyen Shaku

Link: Onta, a poem by Dan Beachy-Quick

The difference between an unwise person and a wise person lies in how they respond to pain, not in whether or not they achieve an absence of pain.

Vidyamala Burch

Blues: Big Bill Broonzy, Trouble In Mind 

Ritual is a form of direct knowing, something indigenous to the psyche. It has evolved with us, taking knowing into the bone, into our very marrow. 

Francis Weller

That I might always remember to be grateful, and to show my gratitude. That I might always remember to seek out the good when bad things happen, and to be grateful for those things. That I might always remember to seek out the good that I can do myself.

james lee jobe

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