Creation – haiga

There is Buddha

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in the still space
between each thought
the Buddha waits
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For Carpe Diem’s Santoka Taneda’s ‘There is Buddha’ prompt

in the ceaseless sound
of the water
there is Buddha

© Santoka Taneda

Subsumption

for Carpe Diem Time Glass bases on the following haiga by Chevrefeuille –

This being a woman

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This being a woman
is a holding back

words caught in the throat
pebbles, rocks, boulders,
but isn’t it the stones
that make the river sing?

This being a woman
is a flowing around

a liquid grace,
a sinuous tenacity,
what obstacle has ever
stopped a river in flow?

This being a woman
is a relearning

no matter how much
the world breaks you,
were you not always
unbreakable and whole?

This being a woman
is a discovering

amidst a world that
denies you your dignity,
finding a world inner,
pure, precious, powerful.

This being a woman
is always about love

you may love one
or may love many,
but most of all
you must love your self

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