school of fish
becomes one super-fish
in a boat's shade.
Shade [Haiku]
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Patience [Haiku]
perched egret
clears a window in pond scum,
and waits — statue-like!
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Pigeon King [Haiku]
pigeons mill about --
then one finds color
in the gray city.
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One Eye [Senryū]
Pansy Patch [Haiku]
“Ox” by Ikkyū [w/ Audio]
Among other creatures this is what I was.
Abilities depend on the realm;
realm also depends on abilities.
At birth I forgot completely by which path
I came.
I don't know, these years, which school
of monk I am.
Translation by Kazuaki Tanahashi and David Schneider in Essential Zen. 1994. HarperSanFrancisco.
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Cobbles [Haiku]
Land at Rest [Haiku]
the land rests
after the harvest;
birds feed on remnants.
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Hilltop Temple [Haiku]
Coiled [Haiku]
neck coiled,
egret hovers stock still
to snap up a fish.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 