you make the fire
i’ll show you something wonderful:
a big ball of snow
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let’s have a cup of tea
i’ll show you something awesome:
a giant snowball
Every day, I’m still looking for God and I’m still finding him everywhere, in the dust, in the flower beds. . . so begins a poem by Mary Oliver, “On Traveling to Beautiful Places.”
Above, the first haiku was written by Matsuo Basho, the greatest contributor to the development of haiku literature.
