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Carsyn Smith Jun 2014
I wonder, love, if you see
these stars that hang over me
or if you, so far away,
forget to look up?
My first attempt at a Doditsu poem...
The horizon was pure Magic:
Pink blue white softness ~ Light born
At the sunset ~ full Moon in bloom. . .
Saw you on wheels  ~ son!
Dodoitsu
7/7/7/5

Imagined by
Impeccable Space
Poetic traveller
a blue winged butterfly
pirouetted in the garden
like a pretty ballerina
twirling on the stage
LD Goodwin Mar 2013
India women dip white
linen cloths into vats of
the most beautiful colors,
Yogis meditate.


*Dodoitsu 7,7,7,5  Japanese style of poetry. Circa 1600s. Often concerning love or work, and usually comical.  In my case I was trying to show an analogy between dipping into meditation and the dipping of cloth in a vat of dye. But I also found it humorous that the men meditated, while the women worked.
Harrogate, TN March 2013
eve's elongated shadows
darkened the atmosphere
for the company of hikers
trekking Milton Ridge
cicadas thrummed all day
as the sun searingly shone
their drumming beat abated
when the cool breeze came
the rock face had altered
after years of weathering
it had gone from rough to smooth
this is erosion
the rain's damp streaming tendrils
caressed the dry landscape
with a kindly moistening
to revive its soils
Hilda Aug 2014
in eastern meadow and wood
mushrooms of lemon and beige
strawberry and creamy white
flood me with rapture
© Hilda August 22, 2014
as the ***** ***** wind whirled
it splayed plumes of dust
across the salt-bush terrain
on that dry May day
Presently, this poem is the poem of the week, on the Oz Poetic Society website.

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