Zen Garden [Haiku]

little Zen Garden
evokes a craggy cliff
despite scale issues.

Zen Garden [Lyric Poem]

I see those serene figures sit
 amid Zen Garden evergreens.
Like Benkei, they don't move a whit,
 Their minds are free of thoughts & dreams.

The moss is growing on them, now,
 and birds have left their fecal splat.
Don't envy how they've found the Dao,
 but how they have no need of hats.

DAILY PHOTO: Tạ Trường Du, Huế

Taken in December of 2015 in Hue’s Imperial Citadel

Zen Garden Haiku

I
evergreens,
twisted and bent
to gnarled beauty


II
arched bridge
forms a wide eye
with water’s mirror


III
the garden
designed, aligned, and kempt —
nature, but not


IV
peace-filled
by tranquil sights —
soul programmed


V
sitting on grass,
the rocky outcrop
turns island