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Hello friend, nautical traveler
On a river flowing in between dreaming eyes,
I've found you suddenly,
Surrendering to wondrous, compulsive ritual,
The very wind caught by your sails tickles and grinds the land below
Perched atop the icy tower,
We see where the path divides,
And we know not what we will find, but we are learning to seek
-seawaters
This haiku is a deep reflection on the truth of reality, which is by nature transient and fleeting. When we are unable to accept this truth we become distressed. However, recognition of this truth could at least bring a sense of poignancy to all of us human beings, who inevitably experience and witness it. There is even an aesthetic of this recogni
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In the utter darkness
Of a moonless night
A powerful wind embraces
— Bashō
🌊 Cerulean waves
Boiled down to the froth
The foamy wake of deep blue futures
Bubbling ankle deep at the shoreline
Splashing opalescence
Lucidity of the mercurial surf
-seawaters
One by Mary Oliver The mosquito is so small it takes almost nothing to ruin it. Each leaf, the same. And the black ant, hurrying. So many lives, so many fortunes! Every morning, I walk softly and with forward glances down to the ponds and through the pinewoods. Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour before the slug creeps to the feast, before the p
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