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Bodhisattva
There is no trying: Either you are a Buddha or you are not One. Once past duality there is no more “in training”; linear time ends, and everything is connected as Everything. There is nothing else. Just you and the … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, haiku, Japanese forms, poetic forms, practice, reality, realization, samadhi, satori, waka
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Morning Dogs: choka
The scrabble of claws across the linoleum: waking with the dogs. At the first hint of morning, they are ready to go. Forget your sleeping. The moment your body stirs, their insistence starts. Outside, outside! they clamor, until you do … Continue reading
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Tagged children, choka, daily poems, dogs, domesticity, Japanese verse forms, morning, poetic forms
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Lines from Our Epitaph: chant royal
’Tis morning, for the cock at dawn has crowed; and in the bustle of the waking day each wipes away the sleep and takes their load from where it slept – and moves along their way. Some burdens may seem … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, chant royal, daily poems, French verse forms, futility, hope, passion, poetic forms, regret
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The Wild Wonder: chant
I am the soft and silent spring that well-oiled, whispers while it winds; I am the scent of somber smoke that wisps its wild way through the wood; I am the gentle grasp of green that in the spring succors … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, chant, daily poems, nature, poetic forms, wildness, wonder
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Round Again: chanso
And so around again: the how, the where, the when; could be and might have been; the raven or the wren. The sword versus the pen: in battles now and then it’s hard to tell who wins; the line is … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, chanso, cycles, daily poems, energy, French verse forms, futility, infinity, patterns, poetic forms, recycling, reincarnation
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The River: cautionary verse
These questions that you warn me not to ask, they do not simply fade away unsaid; and while your tacit threat may chill my bones, it will not stop me, until I am dead. What good is bullying, and idle … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, cautionary verse, daily poems, fascism, perseverance, poetic forms, politics, resistance
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The World is Full of Magic: carole
Though some now say it comes to nil The world is full of magic still The end is nigh, soothsayers scry, and from their parapets do cry “Beware the evil that draws nigh!” – though some now say it comes … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, battle, carol, carole, daily poems, illusion, magic, noel, poetic forms, reality
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