https://i.imgur.com/TqM6S2b.jpg inspired by nature inspired by others inspired by seemingly spontaneous thoughts, as if a transceiver in my head is suddenly receiving signals from somewhere this week’s poems began with a play on a famous haiku by Ryokan and the story behind it that a thief made the long journey to his humble hut in the mountains where Ryokan happened upon him and, feeling bad because there was nothing to steal, gave him the clothes off his back after which Ryokan sat down to pen a poem about the beauty of the moon in the window the fourth poem was inspired by a comment I received a couple of weeks ago from @riverflows a comment that referred me to a song and a line about cigarette ashes in the night, scattering on the road the last poem came from a writing prompt in the hive garden community: write three haiku about gardens though the garden isn’t visible in this poem, thinking about gardens provoked a memory of being near one and having this experience, as the deer hoped to nibble on the flowers nearby before nightfall https://i.imgur.com/5YluPg8.jpg **(1)** you can have it all just leave the moon there in the window **(2)** on the horizon next to my loneliness the new year sits **(3)** first the crickets’ song now the passing call of geese goodbye for now **(4)** cigarettes in the night writing the words dreams come true as they disappear **(5)** sorrows from the north fall from the sky and become tears on your face **(6)** barely visible behind the snow squall frosted giants loom **(7)** deer in the next field watching silently waiting for me to turn in https://i.imgur.com/wWsySej.jpg
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