Thank you and poems

It was wonderful to have so many sangha members at our anniversary gathering. Thank you for coming out to the farm. Nyoi suggested we have more gatherings like this. What do you think?
I am posting some of my poems from the week in response to Rinsen's promptings. I'd love to hear how you receive them. Creative audience helps me immeasurably.

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as I lie in bed
a cool summer breeze
rustles the leaves

through the window
a gentle current
laps over me

one taste

I do not mind
growing old
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For Phil and Simon

a summer breeze
lifts the tips
of horse's tail

do you think
it could
be said
better?

the rain pounds
on the roof

impossible
to say it
wrong

why linger
in echo's

before you know it
the sun is out
the kids
are on
their bikes

after you know it
the sun is out
the kids
are on
their bikes

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the blue sky waits
the blue water waits
for
the shivering boy
on the edge
of the diving board

small girls
drag their towels
along the wet edge
of the pool

crying out
jump jump jump

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the thick fingers
of the tree trunk
disappear
into the ground

Gutei had one

Do'on has ten

she never lifts a finger

lazy lazy lazy

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- Do'on Weik