Live oaks reach branches
Sunlight graces every leaf
With gentle wisdom

Inspired by the not-haiku on my ITO EN tea. (BTW the Automattic home page is all haiku since 2009.)
Live oaks reach branches
Sunlight graces every leaf
With gentle wisdom

Inspired by the not-haiku on my ITO EN tea. (BTW the Automattic home page is all haiku since 2009.)
There was a beautiful poem by Kayo Chingonyi in the New York Magazine this week titled The Nod:
When we’re strangers that pass each other
in the street, it will come down to this tilt
of the head — acknowledging another
version of events set in a new-build
years from now, a mess of a place filled
with books and records, our kids thick as thieves
redefining all notions of mischief.Perhaps our paths will cross in a city
of seven hills as the light draws your face
out from the bliss of anonymity.
Maybe you’ll be stroking the goose-down nape
of a small child with eyes the exact shade
of those I met across a room at the start
of this pain-in-the-heart, this febrile dance.
When I hear "seven hills" my mind immediately goes to Rome, then San Francisco, but Wikipedia has a helpful list of cities that claim to be built on seven hills.
A friend pointed out The Nod is a fine complement to The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.