brisk breeze gusts
down the city canyon:
winter nights.
Winter Nights [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Sundown in Townsquare
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Shade [Haiku]
school of fish
becomes one super-fish
in a boat's shade.
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PROMPT: Budgeting
Write about your approach to budgeting.
Don’t want much. Don’t need much. And hope for the best.
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“The great road has no gate” by Tiāntóng Rújìng [w/ Audio]
The great road has no gate.
It leaps out from the heads of all of you.
The sky has no road.
It enters into my nostrils.
In this way we meet as Gautama's bandits,
or Linji's troublemakers. Ha!
Great houses tumble down and spring wind swirls.
Astonished, apricot blossoms fly and scatter -- red.
Translated by Mel Weitsman and Kazuaki Tanahashi; printed in: Essential Zen. 1994. HarperSanFrancisco, p. 136.
Note: While Rujing was Chinese he was teacher to the prominent Japanese Zen Teacher, Dōgen Zenji, the latter published this and other poems, hence the dual categorization of it as Chinese and Japanese Literature.
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DAILY PHOTO: Reputedly Haunted School in Kurseong
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Sky Fire [Haiku]
orange skies blaze,
briefly but vibrantly,
people watch the fade.
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“The Lilly” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble Sheep a threat’ning horn;
While the Lilly white shall in Love delight,
Nor a thorn, nor a threat, stain her beauty bright.
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Town Square in Winter [Haiku]
Winter's eve:
town square vacant;
only the church is lit.
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Morning Mystery [Haiku]
winter day dawn:
single set of boot-prints
in fresh fallen snow.
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