trunk ringed by fallen blooms,
only the pate contains hangers-on.
Hangers On [Haiku]
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Bright Fringed [Haiku]
bright-fringed clouds
with blackened bellies drift:
summer day sundown.
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“Precept-Breaking Monk” by Ikkyū [w/ Audio]
A precept-breaking monk for eighty years --
still, I'm ashamed of Zen that ignores cause and effect.
Sickness is the result of past karma.
Now how can I honor my endless connections?
Translation by Kazuaki Tanahashi and David Schneider in: Essential Zen. 1994. HarperSanFrancisco. p. 126.
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Illusion of Depth [Haiku]
Autumn Moon [Haiku]
Autumn moon first glimpse
is impossibly huge;
the next, it shrank!
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“The Fish” by William Butler Yeats [w/ Audio]
Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.
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Anachronism [Haiku]
the temple might stand
a thousand years ago,
but for that city.
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Floating [Haiku]
boats float the river;
balloons through the sky.
i float through time.
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“So set its Sun in Thee” (808) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
So set its Sun in Thee
What Day be dark to me —
What Distance — far —
So I the Ships may see
That touch — how seldomly —
Thy Shore?
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