A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
Category: Poetry
Wislawa Szymborska – Conversation with a Stone
Have you ever tried to have a conversation with a stone? How did it go?
Elizabeth Bishop – Little Exercise
Written when she was living in Key West in the 1930s and 40s, Bishop was inspired by the uneasy beauty of the tropical storms there.
Wallace Stevens – The Snowman
A poem imbued with a sense of healing and strength cultivated over many seasons, enabling the capacity for wide-open looking and listening.
Dana Gioia – Summer Storm
How does the spinning of "could have been" stories keep us perpetually dissatisfied?
Heather Swan – Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light
In our time alive, what if we trusted just as the falling raindrop trusts the holding of the approaching ocean?
Mary Oliver – To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
Great wisdom may be addition by subtraction - by releasing our preoccupation with individual identity, we enter a vast and bountiful connection with all of life.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Self-Compassion
How we learn to become a loving friend—perhaps even best friend—to ourselves.
James Crews – Winter Morning
The art of gratitude is the art of paying attention, and when we incline our minds toward gratitude, gratitude blossoms.
Robert Hass – Faint Music
The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity.