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whatever happens
I take as "the best" --
winter storm
Two large low-pressure systems with cold air over the Sea of Japan, heading down ...
with whipping wind and all ...
a typhoon by any other name ...
and maybe 24 more hours to go ...
what a scene -
colored leaves are blown
before they fall
Outside the window, colored leaves are blown by.
They might have made it on their trees for a bit longer,
if it was not for these bursts of super-strong wind.
In Utsunomiya town they had the first frost of this year on the morning of November 6. About eight days later than usual.
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11/09/2010
11/08/2010
extinct birds
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autumn memories -
the sound of birds
long extinct
. WKD : BIRD SAIJIKI
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New Zealand
The value of conservation is better understood by an appreciation of lost biodiversity. New Zealand's greatest biological loss is 42 percent of its' terrestrial birds since human settlement 700 years ago. The 57 extinct birds evolved in an isolated land, and without mammal predators, developed various levels of flightlessness, ground feeding and nesting habits, and fearlessness over millions of years.
source : www.terranature.org
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! aha !
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autumn memories -
the sound of birds
long extinct
. WKD : BIRD SAIJIKI
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New Zealand
The value of conservation is better understood by an appreciation of lost biodiversity. New Zealand's greatest biological loss is 42 percent of its' terrestrial birds since human settlement 700 years ago. The 57 extinct birds evolved in an isolated land, and without mammal predators, developed various levels of flightlessness, ground feeding and nesting habits, and fearlessness over millions of years.
source : www.terranature.org
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! aha !
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11/07/2010
salt spilled
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salt spilled
on a black tray -
chrystal galaxies
. WASHOKU
Salt in Japanese Culture
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salt spilled
on a black tray -
chrystal galaxies
. WASHOKU
Salt in Japanese Culture
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11/06/2010
quality of time
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Milky Way -
the spiritual quality
of time
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quote
The theory of relativity is synonymous with the name of Albert Einstein, who gave to the world a new concept pertaining to the interrelationship of the energies of life. It is the Kabalarian intention to establish a new philosophical concept of relativity applicable to
the spiritual quality of time.
The understanding of time is a challenging mental exercise. It is easy superficially to equate time to the position of the earth relative to the sun and even the graduations of changes with civilizations, geological periods, and celestial positions. However, there is a much more subtle yet profound recognition of the value of time and the intelligence of time.
Read MORE
source : www.kabalarians.com
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kairos - καιρός - the right moment
the right or opportune moment
the supreme moment
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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calendar time
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years.
The name given to each day is known as a date.
Many civilizations and societies have devised a calendar, usually derived from other calendars on which they model their systems, suited to their particular needs.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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How much "spiritual quality time"
do you experience each day?
Is your "haiku time" a spiritual time?
Feel free to leave your thoughts as a comment.
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starless night--
the baby's hunger
measures time
Remembering when time was all about "feed on demand".
Carole MacRury
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night shift -
falling asleep with
the dawn's chorus
sprite
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lazy afternoon-
I drift along with the breeze
and dandelion seeds
Alan Summers
1. Haiku Friends 2 ed. Masaharu Hirata, Osaka, Japan 2007
2. Aesthetics, Bath Spa University literary journal, Summer 2007
3. Haiga artwork by Kuniharu Shimizu (Tokyo, Japan)
4. Creative Writing Bath ekphrastic challenge (2010)
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quality time-
break between lessons
for haiku
Alex Serban
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. Calendar Time in the Japanese Saijiki
. The Milky Way (ama no kawa, amanogawa) as KIGO
. Time Memorial Day (toki no kinenbi)
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Milky Way -
the spiritual quality
of time
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quote
The theory of relativity is synonymous with the name of Albert Einstein, who gave to the world a new concept pertaining to the interrelationship of the energies of life. It is the Kabalarian intention to establish a new philosophical concept of relativity applicable to
the spiritual quality of time.
The understanding of time is a challenging mental exercise. It is easy superficially to equate time to the position of the earth relative to the sun and even the graduations of changes with civilizations, geological periods, and celestial positions. However, there is a much more subtle yet profound recognition of the value of time and the intelligence of time.
Read MORE
source : www.kabalarians.com
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kairos - καιρός - the right moment
the right or opportune moment
the supreme moment
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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calendar time
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years.
The name given to each day is known as a date.
Many civilizations and societies have devised a calendar, usually derived from other calendars on which they model their systems, suited to their particular needs.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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How much "spiritual quality time"
do you experience each day?
Is your "haiku time" a spiritual time?
Feel free to leave your thoughts as a comment.
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starless night--
the baby's hunger
measures time
Remembering when time was all about "feed on demand".
Carole MacRury
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night shift -
falling asleep with
the dawn's chorus
sprite
.................................................................................
lazy afternoon-
I drift along with the breeze
and dandelion seeds
Alan Summers
1. Haiku Friends 2 ed. Masaharu Hirata, Osaka, Japan 2007
2. Aesthetics, Bath Spa University literary journal, Summer 2007
3. Haiga artwork by Kuniharu Shimizu (Tokyo, Japan)
4. Creative Writing Bath ekphrastic challenge (2010)
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quality time-
break between lessons
for haiku
Alex Serban
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. Calendar Time in the Japanese Saijiki
. The Milky Way (ama no kawa, amanogawa) as KIGO
. Time Memorial Day (toki no kinenbi)
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11/04/2010
dokuraku
| 独楽 dokuraku hitori de tanoshimu  熊谷守一 Kumagai Morikazu （1880―1977） to enjoy his garden all by himself - to enjoy life  |
Kumagai Morikazu
is mostly recognized as a representa-tive painter of the Japanese modern age. Kimura Teizo (1913-2003), a Nagoya art collector, first discovered Kumagai's talents and assisted him in various ways throughout his life. When they first met, Kumagai was 25 and Kimura, 59 but they formed a bond that lasted a lifetime. Many of Kumagai's works are simple and offer the viewer a calm and nostalgic feeling.
Although Kumagai is known generally as a western-style painter, he left behind various styles of artwork, including Japan-ese paintings and calligraphies. Kimura bought more than 100 pieces of his work and his ability to identify authentic talent was amazing. Even after Kumagai's death, Kimura's collection of Kumagai's paint-ings grew year by year.
Kimura and his wife donated the collection to the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. This collection consists of about 50 oil paintings, 100 Japanese-style paintings, 40 calligraphies, and 20 sculptures and paintings on pottery, which gives the entire picture of Kumagai's artistic output, offering an interesting insight into the diversity of Kumagai's world.
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For the last thirty years of his life, after loosing two children to disease, he lived in a home in Tokyo, with a small garden, that turned out to become his paradise. He put up tree stumps in six locations to enjoy the view, spending hours to observe the animals, from the smallest ants to the bigger birds and the cats in the neighbourhood.
He could stare at a puddle
until he had grasped
the essence of raindrops.
He could lie on his back on the earth, watching the sun pass through the trees and observe the changes of shadows, the bees and the butterflies, the little flowers and the weeds.
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11/03/2010
Birthday
| a chorus of raven in the dark morning sky - happy birthday to me  ................................................................................. birthday kisses - the lingering taste of honey |
. November 3 -
Culture Day in Japan
was
Birthday of Emperor Meiji
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Happy birthday, dear Gabi!
お誕生日おめでとうございます。Tanjoubi Omedetou!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
С Днём рождения!!!
СРЕЋАН РОЂЕНДАН, ДРАГА ГАБИ!
Wishes from facebook WKD
恵
may your birthday be filled with joy
...every day be blessed with poetry
grave or light hearted you could be
unto the last moment of your life!
may your brush be busy
in composing and writing haiku!
Wishes from facebook : Gabi
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10/31/2010
Tanada Festival
 a hot baloon hovers in the valley - autumn festival |
. Ohaga Culture Festival October 2010
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Hokusai on google
 Google.co.jp, October 31  |
. Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
(1760-1849)
. Various Dragons from Hokusai
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10/30/2010
playing in the sky
| Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得 Kanzan: Where shall we go to play? To the mountains? To the river? Jittoku: Let us go right up to the sky !  Painting by 榊莫山 Sakaki Bakuzan ................................................................................. 遊べ世界の雲たちよ ！ Visit from Nakamura Sakuo : playing with the clouds It all started with a rainbow at Sakai .  ................................................................................. The first sunset    autumn sunset having played with clouds in terraced rice fields Sakuo .................................................................................  looking down the valley - only clouds and their shadows Gabi .................................................................................   zigzag clouds - a moment later they are gone  .................................................................................     ................................................................................. playing with clouds - the mystery of colors and shapes   ................................................................................. the last moment  |
. Visit of Sakuo san
PHOTO ALBUM
You can take the Slide Show for each side.
Unfortunately my camera produced a dark spot in some images.
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Thank you so much, Sakuo san, for visiting our paradise and our valley.
. everyday Issa
Nakamura Sakuo
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The inspriation comes from Tanuma Takeyoshi,
田沼武能, a friend of Sakuo san.
遊べ子供たち
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10/29/2010
red leaves
 autumn leaves - a new collection for every year .................................................................................   ................................................................................. autumn leaves - the blue sky filled with joy .................................................................................   .................................................................................  Lady Murasaki tries on her new robes - just for me .................................................................................   |
Take a walk with me :
. Autumn colors and sky
. Autumn 2010
Photo Collection
. My LEAF collection
Laeves in all seasons
. Clouds playing in the sky
Visit of Nakamura Sakuo san
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10/27/2010
first cold spell clouds
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sudden cold spell -
waiting for a friend
at the station
The weather has suddenly changed, over night, so to say.
Rain and cold wind from Siberia pound this side of Japan, while typhoon 14 is brewing in the south.
Hokkaido is expecting the first snow of the season.
And we plan to have dinner outside . . . ? !
Well, it was too cold for anything outside.
And now, on the morning of 27, it was just five degrees centigrade ... brrr ... and we will be shivering through a cold day.
Our friend is sketching the landscape.
We had some splendid sky formations over the mountains and tanada rice fields ... and a splendid sunset pink storm clouds raging in straight from Siberia ...
next morning
sudden cold spell -
I need another thick
blanket
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. . . 遊べ 世界の雲たちよ
. Clouds playing in the sky
PHOTO ALBUM
. Sakuo san visiting
Photo album - backwards
秋日暮れ棚田に雲と遊びたり
autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields
Sakuo
Thank you so much for your visit, Sakuo san !
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sudden cold spell -
waiting for a friend
at the station
The weather has suddenly changed, over night, so to say.
Rain and cold wind from Siberia pound this side of Japan, while typhoon 14 is brewing in the south.
Hokkaido is expecting the first snow of the season.
And we plan to have dinner outside . . . ? !
Well, it was too cold for anything outside.
And now, on the morning of 27, it was just five degrees centigrade ... brrr ... and we will be shivering through a cold day.
Our friend is sketching the landscape.
We had some splendid sky formations over the mountains and tanada rice fields ... and a splendid sunset pink storm clouds raging in straight from Siberia ...
next morning
sudden cold spell -
I need another thick
blanket
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. . . 遊べ 世界の雲たちよ
. Clouds playing in the sky
PHOTO ALBUM
. Sakuo san visiting
Photo album - backwards
秋日暮れ棚田に雲と遊びたり
autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields
Sakuo
Thank you so much for your visit, Sakuo san !
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10/24/2010
empty mind
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empty mind ...
I wonder who is chatting
inside
My Japanese sensei used to say
Empty your heart and mind completely, and receive the haiku as a present into this emptiness.
You can not MAKE a good haiku happen, it has to make itself through your empty mind.
Do not try to be witty or poetic or "deep" or anything ... just let nature do the talking through you.
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Selflessness
Bruce Ross
If affective perception determines much of haiku feeling, selfless perception often determines how haiku consciousness exists. For this reason Robert Spiess, the long-time editor of Modern Haiku, preferred the term "feeling" (senses centred on nature, aware) to "emotion" (very strong subjective feeling centred on non-rational mind) when discussing haiku poetics.
At the most basic level the personal "I" is usually left out of haiku. Basically, the personal "I", the Freudian ego and its mental constructs, let us say its emotion, gets in the way of the haiku experience. Empirical procedures and rational thinking that determine the Western mind also get in the way.
The Zen Buddhist idea of an empty mind, the openness to phenomenological presence, is suggestive of an appropriate mental climate.
A Zen saying explains the situation: "One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage".
How does one not get bogged down in thought and experience haiku consciousness? A haiku by Kai Falkman offers a response:
the skier stops
to leave room
for the snow's silence
The first two lines of this poem describe the cessation of what Zen Buddhists call the "monkey mind", a continuous flow of thought. Enlightenment or clear mind, the present-tense clarity of perception, cannot occur when the monkey mind is present.
In effect one must clear one's mind to allow things to speak for themselves.
The phenomenological reduction, the skier stopping, accomplished, the snow, its silence, can speak for itself. Here the personal "I" is not used. The poet, his will, is not stopping the skis. The snow's silence is. The "I" is not what is important. What is important is the snow's silence. The stopping is a mere notation leading to the snow's silence. In many ways this poem becomes an evocation of a kind of enlightenment experience.
A monk asked Li-shan: "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
"There is no ‘what' here," said Li-shan.
"What is the reason??"
"Just because things are such as they are," replied Li-shan.
- Zen mondo
source : The Essence of Haiku
By Bruce Ross. autumn 2007
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googeling at random
The Empty Mind is not just for martial artists, but for anyone who wishes to improve themselves both spiritually and physically
Amazon.com: The Empty Mind: Ueshiba Moriteru
The beginner’s mind is an open mind, an empty mind, a ready mind,
An Open Mind is not an Empty Mind.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Empty Mind. Musings, observations, rantings and commentary by a libertarian Christian Zen Master.
Taoist Art. Learning to be free in the empty mind.
... an empty mind goes a long way toward ensuring a full pocketbook.
one of the basic things that individuals can do to improve the quality of their "thinking" is to have an empty mind.
MySpace profile for empty mind with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
Empty Mind gifts from the CartoonStock directory
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ZEN KOAN METHOD
Empty your Mind and enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind
Lao Tzu Chapter 11
11.Usefulness of Emptiness
Empty your Mind
Thirty spokes are united in one hub (to make a wheel);
But the usefulness(the function) of the wheel depends on the empty space- the center hole of the hub.
Clay is molded into a vessel or a bowl
But it is the empty space within that makes it useful.
Doors and windows are cut out of the walls of a house,
But it is the empty (open) space inside that makes it useful (livable) .
Therefore take advantage of what exists (what the mind receives),
But use the emptiness (to open a way to enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind).
円相 ENSOO
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frieden und freude
zerplatzen . . .
zen zen zen
. . . comments on facebook, 10/2010
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empty mind ...
I wonder who is chatting
inside
My Japanese sensei used to say
Empty your heart and mind completely, and receive the haiku as a present into this emptiness.
You can not MAKE a good haiku happen, it has to make itself through your empty mind.
Do not try to be witty or poetic or "deep" or anything ... just let nature do the talking through you.
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Selflessness
Bruce Ross
If affective perception determines much of haiku feeling, selfless perception often determines how haiku consciousness exists. For this reason Robert Spiess, the long-time editor of Modern Haiku, preferred the term "feeling" (senses centred on nature, aware) to "emotion" (very strong subjective feeling centred on non-rational mind) when discussing haiku poetics.
At the most basic level the personal "I" is usually left out of haiku. Basically, the personal "I", the Freudian ego and its mental constructs, let us say its emotion, gets in the way of the haiku experience. Empirical procedures and rational thinking that determine the Western mind also get in the way.
The Zen Buddhist idea of an empty mind, the openness to phenomenological presence, is suggestive of an appropriate mental climate.
A Zen saying explains the situation: "One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage".
How does one not get bogged down in thought and experience haiku consciousness? A haiku by Kai Falkman offers a response:
the skier stops
to leave room
for the snow's silence
The first two lines of this poem describe the cessation of what Zen Buddhists call the "monkey mind", a continuous flow of thought. Enlightenment or clear mind, the present-tense clarity of perception, cannot occur when the monkey mind is present.
In effect one must clear one's mind to allow things to speak for themselves.
The phenomenological reduction, the skier stopping, accomplished, the snow, its silence, can speak for itself. Here the personal "I" is not used. The poet, his will, is not stopping the skis. The snow's silence is. The "I" is not what is important. What is important is the snow's silence. The stopping is a mere notation leading to the snow's silence. In many ways this poem becomes an evocation of a kind of enlightenment experience.
A monk asked Li-shan: "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
"There is no ‘what' here," said Li-shan.
"What is the reason??"
"Just because things are such as they are," replied Li-shan.
- Zen mondo
source : The Essence of Haiku
By Bruce Ross. autumn 2007
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googeling at random
The Empty Mind is not just for martial artists, but for anyone who wishes to improve themselves both spiritually and physically
Amazon.com: The Empty Mind: Ueshiba Moriteru
The beginner’s mind is an open mind, an empty mind, a ready mind,
An Open Mind is not an Empty Mind.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Empty Mind. Musings, observations, rantings and commentary by a libertarian Christian Zen Master.
Taoist Art. Learning to be free in the empty mind.
... an empty mind goes a long way toward ensuring a full pocketbook.
one of the basic things that individuals can do to improve the quality of their "thinking" is to have an empty mind.
MySpace profile for empty mind with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
Empty Mind gifts from the CartoonStock directory
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
ZEN KOAN METHOD
Empty your Mind and enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind
Lao Tzu Chapter 11
11.Usefulness of Emptiness
Empty your Mind
Thirty spokes are united in one hub (to make a wheel);
But the usefulness(the function) of the wheel depends on the empty space- the center hole of the hub.
Clay is molded into a vessel or a bowl
But it is the empty space within that makes it useful.
Doors and windows are cut out of the walls of a house,
But it is the empty (open) space inside that makes it useful (livable) .
Therefore take advantage of what exists (what the mind receives),
But use the emptiness (to open a way to enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind).
円相 ENSOO
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frieden und freude
zerplatzen . . .
zen zen zen
. . . comments on facebook, 10/2010
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10/19/2010
Daruma Sushi
 Daruma Sushi - an artistic touch for my dinner  |
. WASHOKU
Daruma Sushi だるま寿司
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10/18/2010
spider
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bedtime -
an uninvited spider
sits on the wall
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bedtime -
an uninvited spider
sits on the wall
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. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2010
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Daruma Dew
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Daruma Dew -
a fresh drop for
each morning
. The Buddhist Channel -
Dharma Dew
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. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2010
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Daruma Dew -
a fresh drop for
each morning
. The Buddhist Channel -
Dharma Dew
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. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2010
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