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A haiku work in progress... Haiku:  A Selection of  Winter Sketches by Marie Bortolotto Artist Marie Bortolotto finds inspiration in the poe...

Haiku Sketches:  300 One Line Zen-Inspired Poems Available now on Amazon!

  Under the trees, among the rocks, a thatched hut: verses and sacred commentaries live their together. I'll burn the books I carry in m...

  Haiku Sketches  © by Marie Bortolotto 300 One-Line Zen-Inspired Poems Available Now on Amazon!  Haiku Sketches  ©  by Marie Bortolotto Art...

consider me as one who loved poetry and persimmons - Masaoka Shiki (1867 - 1902) Marie Bortolotto

Marie Bortolotto Art One Line Poem by Marie Bortolotto yellow leaves raining down empty swings

The Meaning of Existence (2002) by Les Murray Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know n...

 One Line Haiku by Marie Bortolotto   dried leaf fading between pages red

One Line Haiku Poem by Marie Bortolotto morning the pine tree bereft of whispers

  from Birds. Art. Life. by Kyo MacLear   "...except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, everyday will have a song in it....

Everything just as it is, just as it is, as it is, as is.   Flowers in bloom. Nothing to add. - Robert Aitken.  Marie Bortolotto

1/ You are not a separate being.  You belong to the living body of Earth.  You are the Earth, looking up at the stars.  You are the Earth,...

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  One-Line Zen-Like Haiku by Marie Bortolotto dandelion gone to seed, she makes a wish

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  "Your laughter will open a thousand and one roses within you." - Osho Marie Bortolotto Art

“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out i...

From Toshi Tsuchitori: Breath (1980)

One-Line Haiku by Marie Bortolotto just a single daffodil surrounded by mud

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Sound art installations by Zimoun Field of Flowers by Daniel Schmidt & Paul Dresher

from The Confucian Anelects The Master said, "What a fine man Hui was!" One container of rice, one dipperful of drink, living in ...

Haiku Utterances by Marie Bortolotto 300 Zen-Inspired One-Line Poems to Liberate the Imaginal Heart   Purchase your copy here! Haiku Utteran...

"Follow your inner moonlight. Don't hide the madness." ~ Allen Ginsberg, American Poet & Writer 1926 - 1997 Marie Bortolot...

  "At this moment, only does my life exist." - Dōgen Zenji, Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō ...

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      Short Verses by Marie Bortolotto 2025 long way home just to see  the snowy mountains Marie Bortolotto Art 2025

    Short Verses by Marie Bortolotto 2025 no words no thoughts, no one -- bird chatter

  Short Verse by Marie Bortolotto 2025 even in a hard cold rain black cat runs to greet me