A silent spider
Sitting perfectly tranquil
My thoughts to observe
You?
A silent spider
Sitting perfectly tranquil
My thoughts to observe
You?
ducks, geese,
chickens and dogs
morning Samadhi song
A jumping sandflea
Going here and there and here
My thoughts observe me
Hi.
A young boy smiles
picks up a stick
And laughs
Mtfbwy
Fugen
A summer's night sky
Stars hanging over my bed
Beacons for my dreams
Good night.
This young man often feels
More like an old fool than a boy
Ironic life, isn't it?
Yellow Sun and green trees,
Red sun gives red trees,
And then, no Sun gives nothing to see...
ironic, isn't?
Lost in distractions,
the present moment
slips by unnoticed
--Rehn
When the night falls
suddenly an owl brakes the silence
A strange bird
Right, wrong, better, worse
Opinions, views, mind-candy
My thoughts betray me
Gassho,
I woke early
To a fierce thunderstorm
I laid awake in awe
Ancient koan asks
My mind goes 'round in reply
My dog Jake just smiles
Gassho,
Sitting with the misty mountains
Loneliness, fear creep in
My mind suddenly a frantic storm
Still, I sit as the mountain
For that, I am proud
Ever heard of Japanese "Renga" poetry?
As I understand, one poem is composed by two or more people, working in harmony. Neither owning the result. How Zen is that?
Renga is composed using five lines, with the first three resembling haiku in following a 5-7-5 syllable-per-line count and the fourth and fifth lines containing seven syllables each.
I only just started trying haiku with the first post here. I think my feeble attempts are more "hope-so" than haiku, but would anyone be so kind as to help finish this? It needs two more lines of 7 syllables each, along the same theme:
This past, that future
Re-writing and becoming
Mind wasting my time
Gassho,
Mind time may seem time wastedOriginally Posted by Don
But mined mind time, a gold mine! :mrgreen:
More of a response than anything :P
"More of a response than anything" - Taylor
It's all good.
Harmony is in the effort; the collaboration.
Gassho,
Ideas of emptiness and awakening,
Boggle my mind,
The sound of rain, I much prefer.
Too many running thoughts on emptiness, it's amazing what our minds can come up with and how we are so likely to believe those thoughts :P
Gassho from someone who really thought he didn't exist for a few seconds there,
Taylor