The peasant hoes on.
The person who asked the way
Is now out of sight.

Buson - Translated by Patrick C. Buchanan, 100 Famous Haiku, 1973

there are a number of these groups - I wish they would get as organized as the main stream media - but they are doctors and health care practitioners - not techies and likely to already be practicing...

what's up with all the dead people you ask? well.....people have been dying ever since people have been here. Heart attacks are the #1 killer, TB, Hepatitis and others are right up there too, way...

Dew catches the sun
and floods the windshield with light.
Two-car accident.

Jim Jones -- Police Blotter Haiku, 2014

'Police Blotter Haiku' is a good example of the popular haiku genre. The...

Twilight in Hendy Woods


This is the hour of magic
When this world and the other world
Touch in a lingering kiss
And a deep stillness settles over all things.


This is the hour of magic

The falling snow flakes
Cannot blunt the hard aches nor
Match the steel stillness.

Etheridge Knight -- The Essential Etheridge Knight, 1991

Etheridge Knight (1931 to 1991) was an African...

When a thing is said,
The lips become very cold
Like the autumn wind.

Basho - Translated by Daniel C. Buchanan, One Hundred Famous Haiku, 1973

Buchanan's 100 translations of famous haiku was...

The Place Where We Are Right


From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring.


The place where we are right
is hard and trampled

The images and charts show that what we have is what we have always had and that is the yearly flue virus. Yes people die from it. 800k died of the flue in 2018/2019 far more than the numbers...

Small bird, forgive me.
I'll hear the end of your song
in some other world.

Anonymous -- Translated by Harry Behn, More Cricket Songs, 1971

Anonymous haiku, and tanka, are numerous in...

Vanishing
The grief and sense of loss we often interpret as a failure in our personality is actually a feeling of emptiness where a beautiful and strange otherness should have been encountered. -...

Smell of the river
casting a line of daydreams
into my window.

Michael Moore - Haiku Landscapes, 2004

Michael Moore (no relationship to the famous film maker) published this collection,...

MDS SPEAK OUT RE; "PANDEMIC", VACCINES AND MORE

Above is a 30 minute video testimonial from doctors around the world who all testify that there is NO PANDEMIC, that VACCINES ARE NOT SAFE and that...

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/breaking-fda-announces-2-deaths-pfizer-vaccine-trial-participants-serious-adverse1?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%3A%20BREAKING%3A%20FDA%20announces%202%20deaths%20o...

Four Quartets: The East Coker


III


O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of...

Please take a minute to take this Argus poll TODAY on the proposed Verizon major wireless wave tower proposed for on top of historic Petaluma Creamery: https://www.petaluma360.com/polls/

PASS IT...

NO vaccine has EVER been made in this time span, and many not ever made successfully after decades.

After Admitting Mistake, AstraZeneca Faces Difficult Questions About Its Vaccine
November 25,...

from these scattered shards
the young archeologist
describes the clay pot

Evelyn Tooley Hunt - Wind Chimes Haiku Journal, 13, 1984

Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1904 to 1997) is best known as a poet...

We Have Lost So Much


We have lost so much
says my friend, Patty
as she carefully holds
a little bird stunned, fallen to
the base of the sky scraper
it’s just collided.

Concord visitors
drink the wine of morning air,
break the bread of words.

Raymond Roseliep - August 11, 1917 to December 6, 1983
Flute Over Walden, 1976
Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1973
Quoted...

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/johns-hopkins-plan-to-vaccinate-ethnic-minorities-and-mentally-challenged-first/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=28064d4b-139b-4dc8-922f-eb2d45...

Thank you so much for this revealing information! You have given open minds a considerable way to evaluate the next Big Pharma FIX. Those who look to Big Pharma to save them may be offering...

Psalm


Oh, the leaky boundaries of man-made states!
How many clouds float past them with impunity;
how much desert sand sifts from one land to another;
how many mountain pebbles tumble...

Best question to date.

anyone who is first in line for this vaccine - isn't making the connection between Big Pharma (the manufacturers of the covid vaccine) and their long history of crimes and felonies. Here's a short...

think back; how many colds have you had when you lost your sense of smell - and taste? and then it came back later. people are so fear-mongered it makes me crazy. I met a woman today looking forward...

Autumn waterfall --
as if a horse's tail kept
shaking and shaking

Ishizaki Rokufu -- Translated by James Kirkup, A Certain State of Mind, 1995

More Than Something Else


Something Else.
Some one else
Some where else


That place is here,
In my home,

Howard, As i have stated before in this forum, Jonas Salk was something close to being a "secular saint" [Hannah Arendt's term.] Nevertheless, as Robert Kennedy Jr. has stated - and as he very...

chrysanthemums bloom
in a mason's yard between
all the blocks of stone

Basho - translated by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato, The Haiku of Basho, 2019

Last year John White and Kemmyo Taira...

Still

I said I will find what is lowly
and put the roots of my identity
down there:
each day I'll wake up
and find the lowly nearby,
a handy focus and reminder,
a ready measure of my...

Dark in the cabin.
No lamp but the blue moon of
the computer screen.

Mary Jo Salter -- Open Shutters, 2003

Mary Jo Salter is a contemporary poet, editor, and teacher. Her work is widely...

Miracles


Here I sit at my computer on 11-11-11, reading hours of emails and petitions and forwards about Delaware River fracking, and Mississippi’s rejection of personhood for women’s eggs, and...

Rusty car body
All that remains of a hope
Once so dearly held

Charles Walker - Haiku and High Timber, 2010

Charles Walker learned about haiku when he was part of the U.S. occupation of Japan...

Corbet does have some valid things to report. One has to have a discerning mind, a willingness to 'think outside the box' and fact check from a number of sources, which has become harder to do with...

Merciful autumn
Tones down the shabby curtains
Of my rented room.

Richard Wright -- September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960 - Haiku 174

Today is the anniversary of the death of Richard Wright. ...

Arms Full


Gratitude means showing up on life’s doorstep,
love’s threshold, dressed in a clown suit,
rubber-nosed, gunboat shoes flapping.
Gratitude shows up with arms full of wildflowers,...

Brave Vandana Shiva Speaks Out Against the Great Reset

By Organic Radicals
Global Research, November 26, 2020
Sott.net 12 November 2020


Organic radical inspiration Vandana Shiva has been...

Great resources!! Thank you for taking the time to gather and share these articles! We have the power to take our lives back but with resources being limited and people's fear being at such high...

Re The Prophet quote:
Exceedingly worthy quote, M/M. Thanks for posting it.
I find it helpful to accompany it with this one from Stephen Levine:
"The greatest obstacle to our spiritual growth is...

White chrysanthemum . . .
Before that perfect flower
Scissors hesitate

Buson - Translated by Peter Beilenson, A Haiku Garland, 1968

Peter Beilenson founded Peter Pauper Press with his wife...

Grace


Thanks and blessing be
to the Sun and the Earth
for this bread and this wine,----
this fruit, this meat, this salt,
---------------this food;
thanks be and blessing to them
who...

What can I say to
The butterfly that just flew
Past me, changing hue?

MA. Milagros T. Dumdum - Falling on Quiet Water

Milagros T. Dumdum is a contemporary haiku poet from Cebu, Philippines. ...

James Corbett - Corbett Report
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You may already know all of this, so excuse me if you do.

Thank you for all your help towards people who haven't been able to help themselves.

This whole "victim" thing is a discussion I won't...

I, like most others am a victim of some things such as injustice by those who have a certain amount of power over me, from a lost childhood to manipulation by unscrupulous unkind, unaware adult...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOgeWXn6KxE&feature=emb_logoI am with Robert Kennedy Jr.
( a long time environmental lawyer and activist)

watch this interview

Responding to Shandi’s initial post, which I’ve only just seen…

A common mistake in estimating Covid mortality is to compare current death rates with current case rates, whereas, given that...

Moon moves down the sky
westward as tree-shadows flow
eastward and vanish.

Buson - Translated by Harry Behn, More Cricket Songs, 1971

Harry Behn (1898 - 1973) was a translator of haiku in the...

With the wind of all
in the red hawk's wings, his heart
how smoothly he flies

Brendan Mobert, Age 8 - The Land of Six Seasons, 1983

'The Land of Six Seasons' was an anthology of locally...