Gitanjali Haiku Sequence Mss. Part II
#36 This is my prayer
to thee
Daily Jubilee
Waking long view Sunday joy
Compressed 50 years
Each breath ready for what comes
Falling in and out of dreams
#36 To Thy will with
love
All for your person
Body breathing its own will
Those Shakespeare Sonnets
Quiet mystery unsolved
Before our Sabbath morning
17 November 2018
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What are you doing?
I lost a pen in bed, found it
Pajama pocket
Never put it there before
Writing after making love
17 November 2018
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A syllable for each year
50-syllable poem
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#37 Where old tracks
are lost
Wake late on Monday
Summarize last night's cop show
Breakfast before us
Slice an apple for Karen
Clue her on Friday ball scores
19 November 2018
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#38 As the storm still
seeks its end
Cowiche Canyon
Peanut butter on Hogie
Long early shadows
Bright fungus on sage
That I want thee, only
thee
Sun-warmed black basalt
Bleached grass November sunshine
Zip up down parka in wind
20 November 2018
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#39 Come to me, Lord
of Silence
Pouring your coffee
Sharing two butterscotch chairs
Shower of mercy
This Wednesday morning
Thanksgiving following day
I will make your toast
Topped with apricot jelly
All else dust and Monkey Mind
21 November 2018
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#40 God, my arid heart
Stove top cranberries
Ripe rising bog green temper
None--all mine turkey
Your fibered quilts wrapping me
Storied fragments trace stitching
22 November 2018
#41 Ask me what it is
Never crossed my mind
Commitment never surfaced
Desire all desire
Laughing at daughters on phone
Beloved Daughters grace downed
#42 Cloud of Grace
bend low
Away from traffic
Your face coming from red tent
Idaho sunset
Jim Bodeen
22 November 2018
22 November 2018
#43 Steps echo from
star to star
These lines to work with
When I didn't keep myself
I had no traction
Scattered in blue dust
Words rooted, leaning away
Waiting for your call
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Syllabic footnote
Tear storm, wind storm, wait tear call
Detritus wind wait
#44 Air fills with
promises
Where poet's verse dulls
Wayside where shadows catch light
Long-marriage perfume
22-23 November 2018
#45 Chariot of clouds
Work my way to you
Kitchen stops counter kisses
Our full time in bed
24 November 2018
#46 Tremulous
joy-heart
Whose sunrise confirms
Candles follow evidence
Floating fantasies
Propose over phone
Uniformed Army private
You said, No, Grow up
Memory acting
Desire urging love is love
Free will means be free
History matters
Marriage provides evidence
Celebrating facts
Insight before eyes
Children bring what can be seen
In and out of dreams
Jim Bodeen
23-24 November 2018
#47 Not to be called
from my sleep
Did I leave this house
I did not, looked out window
At all that sunshine
#48 I saw thee
standing
I would give my life
Shadow path of promises
To be dressed in you
#48 Morning sea
silence
Bicycle quilt song
Inexhaustible thread wave
Quince toast pleasure bite
Flooding my sleep with they smile
Scrubbing your floors on my knees
#49 I was singing
alone
Karen's too damn good
I had to call her on it
More than once I did
25 November 2018
#50 Begging door to
door
Still counting on luck
What North Dakota call dice roll
Beds such purity
You never asked for a thing
My striving for you doubled
#51 Nothing but the
wind
Get up, unbound eyes
Eat apple, talk to Karen
Underground railroad
Novel subverting reading
Frederick Douglass
Back in bed this time
pick book to read me asleep
Beloved returns
26 November 2018
#52 What is it I find
Driving with Karen
Seattle where she grew up
We could go to Dick's
Historian of sorts
If it's not in the poems
Can't make it up now
Dick's fresh cut fries
Deluxe city cheeseburgers
Nickel ketchup cup
#53 Pure flame of
being
Rain walk Seattle
Olive Avenue movie
Flagged parking meter
Rooms for blacks in Green
Book
Shutting door to who we are
#54 Thy voice tired
spoke low
Cross-eyed president
Micro-wave pizza in room
Black jazz Orpheus
26-27 November 2018
#55 Flower reigns in
splendour
Native sound booth find
Her children repeat old ways
Dreaming words awake
#56 Thou hast come
down to me
Path to Ancestors
Gives all to future children
First Peoples Mother
#57 My light,
eye-kissing light
Temple at High Camp
Snow place of mountain worship
Quilted by Karen
Prayer on back side
Unrecognizable dream
Tensile thread word-strong
Dream body moon song waking
Write while beloved stitches sleep
28 November 2018
29 November 2018
#58 Dust knows not a
word
Our parents brought us
Park without a place to run
And a slow boat home
Twin dance brothers life and death
Birds on singing bridge greet us
#59 Light Dances on
leaves
Red gate grants passage
Hyphenated belonging
Stones follow down creek
November rhododendrons
Deepest green, afternoon rain
#60 Scattering gathered pebbles
Japanese maples
Other side of Torii Gate
Red River dreaming
Salt and pepper tiger shrimp
two sets of chop sticks
How to hear unheard language
An orthography
A set of symbols, spelling
Policeman bracelets
Turn up in Mountain Poems
Dragons in city alleys
Inner-patterned syllables
Bring old man out of childhood
All the way around adults
Karen navigates the way
Quilting on her telephone
Longshoreman hat window sits
Year of Dog Fortune Cookies
29 November 2018
#61 Beam of Crescent
Moon
With dragons come change
Leaving mundane world behind
Empty your pockets
#62 Sweet listening
Earth
Silent on stone bench
Silk-wrapped star-daughter slumbers
Lost child boards sky boat
#63 Then no door is
shut
Mixed rain, wind-whipped waves
House the stranger you have been
Dark water night birth
#64 Among lost lamp
light
Out late, far, alone
Carnival stone, river thrown
Canoe with one oar
Words repeating, light,
dark, lamp
Five light, seven lamp, five dark
30 November 2018
#65 Word weaving world
Rain clears Snow Mountain
Ice sheets cloud Argentina
Penguin trek slurried
1 December 2018
#66 Who ever saw Her
What untouched darkness
Song searching locked-up temples
Each crooked-man step
#66 Folded final song
What keeps me each day
Staple Sisters sing God's love
He finds me narrow
2 December 2018
#67
Gold basket sound
crown
Trackless path,
infinite sky
No nor nor never
3 December 2018
#68 Darkness made for
tears
for G.H.
He walks cloud-hidden
On the way to get a key
Long strides distant stars
3 December 2018
#69 Same life, same
life, rocked
Saddest song friend knows
Ry Cooder's Alamo Bay
Over and over
Marine comes home from Khe Sanh
Shoulders Big Heat Fire tree stump
#70 Beyond gladness,
this
Catch it as it is
This morning already gone
What died wasn't this
#71 Turn it on all
sides
All these books in bed
My Struggle, Gitanjali
Get up, pee, count days
4 December 2018
#72 He is, innermost
Water song in creek
Fills bamboo echo
Hollow on stone
5 December 2018
#73 Different lamps
with thy flame
Street eyes turn to hear
Chimes crossing syllable chant
Child rings winter bells
Jim Bodeen
5 December 2018
End of Part II
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