DAILY PHOTO: Elephants Take a Swim
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Pelican Ambiguity [Senryū]
DAILY PHOTO: Ranganathittu Macaques
Crocodile Wu Wei [Lyric Poem]
Sunning on the shore,
As in days of yore
When the ancient beast
Stood its ground to feast,
Waiting for one to crawl
Near its gaping maw...
Then, SNAP!
CRUNCH! - Crunch - crunch...
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Shade [Haiku]
school of fish
becomes one super-fish
in a boat's shade.
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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.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 