brown moth blends against bare earth,
'til footfall tremor sends it lurching.
Forfeit [Haiku]
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Summer Fluff [Haiku]
gone to fluff:
flowers quietly await a
good, stiff breeze.
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“A Decade” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread,
Smooth and pleasant.
I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.
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Mud [Haiku]
Spring rain for days:
grass is green & thick;
the mud, soft & thin.
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“To a Taoist Hermit on Mt. Quanjiao” [寄全椒山中道士] by Wei Yingwu [韦应物]
Today, my office is chilly.
At once, I miss my mountain chum,
Who bound firewood in the valley,
Bringing it back to boil white stones.
I wish I could ladle some wine
To comfort on this stormy night.
But fallen leaves fill mountain hollows,
How could I find a track to follow?
This is poem #29 from the 300 Tang Poems [唐诗三百首], entitled 寄全椒山中道士. The original poem in Simplified Chinese is:
今朝郡斋冷， 忽念山中客；
涧底束荆薪， 归来煮白石。
欲持一瓢酒， 远慰风雨夕。
落叶满空山， 何处寻行迹？
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Hangers On [Haiku]
trunk ringed by fallen blooms,
only the pate contains hangers-on.
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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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