Haikus

The ocean is not
    Damaged by the tsunami.
I am the ocean!

My heart is yearning

For boys who played in my home

In earlier days

I can feel the truth

When the heart-noise dissipates

And my soul takes flight

Live like the monarchs

Enjoy many flower fields

In life’s migration

Like soft rain falling

       Kindness refreshes our soul

Renews our spirit

Warmth of morning sun

       Sparrows, house-finch, white-winged dove

Celebrate new day!

World full of beauty

     Left and right, above below

See with brand new eyes!

Chihauhuan desert

     Looks barren from distance

Up close—full of life!

Wind chimes call me home

     To place of effortlessness

From which much good comes.

My heart yearns to rest

[The yearning is the problem]

Aha! Now I rest!

In serenity

     Everything becomes lucid

Now comes best effort

When belly is full

Thoughts are dull, movements sullen

Better to hold back

There is a time for

Everything under the sun;

Even rebellion.

Into the dark womb

     Of the spiritual earth

The Seed of Life came.

Aging

What was that Haiku

     That slipped from my memory?

It was a good one!

We can find joy in

     Pulling weeds from the garden

So flowers can grow.

Even a dullard

     Can feel a breath of beauty

With an open heart.

Sleepiness arises.

What is really important?

The gift of a nap!

Like salmon upstream

     For the next generation

We pour ourselves out.

Denali
Summer soft colored
    Winter tops; stark, foreboding 
It's teeth--the Grizzly

Lush, many flowered
     Fragrant rolling soft mountains
Vast 'spanse, beyond sight

Only in summer
      May this beauty be beheld
Lush, white-topped mountains

People in and out
     Quiet beauty always here
Changing with seasons

Cool clouds roll in slow
     Over vast quiet beauty
Opening my soul

Silty cold river
     Braids through lush flat green valley
Feeding mirror pools

Beauty overflowing
     Tiny bright trembling flower 
And vast snowy crags

Midnight at Talkeetna
Arctic terns in sun
     Flaming behind Denali
Glacial river air

Family closeness
     Has its painful episodes
Yet is wonderful