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  1. #201
    Friends come New and regular, and experienced, new to poetry, anyone may post your lines of verse, rhythm, rhyme, or Free Verse, stanzas with structure, Villanelle, Sonnet, Rondeau, you may pick and choice your own. Compose here in open verse, or bring what you may like to post, your own, or ancient verses. Go ahead and post any poetry here you might like, or explore. Write poetry all are invited.

    Gassho
    sat/ lah
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  2. #202
    We hide in nothing
    Forever gone again
    Parrots intelligent
    Enough to speak white
    Mans love, where
    Is love in green trees?
    What happened in smoke
    Poisoning rapture
    In white out blue?

    Gassho
    sat/lah
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  3. #203

    ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

    Peace Never Gone

    Sit gratuitously friends
    Remembering thee gain
    Loss without afternoon pain
    Not understand surgery
    Fortuitously gone another
    Peace gained peaceful art
    Alone, dangerously
    Play with wonder
    Adopted land. I cannot
    Write blue Haiku
    Is soul immortal?
    Live not in tatters,
    Sing rapture thought
    To write Villanelles,
    Peacefully Rondeau
    Dance Byzantium
    Warning Constantinople
    Silence drives me sane
    My neurosurgeon
    Called today vestigial
    Pain may subside,
    Men in dust live better
    Surrounding silence
    Gone never Modula
    Deep much deeper
    Than my AVM, never
    My words grace
    Ministers surgeon says
    Language great, sense
    Monday through Friday,
    Everything disappears
    Dictatorial immersion,
    Can't stay in acts, here
    In Sangha sit for peace,
    With language promised
    Never gone, oh, music sing
    Poetry of forgiveness,
    Now tears gone except
    My Buddha heart one may meet
    Teacher, I will never
    Kill him in white smoke.
    Heart of Shikantaza.

    Gassho
    sat/ lah
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    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  4. #204

    ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

    Remember

    On March third, 2021,
    Where Dakota Prairie
    His second gratitude
    Today Steps near
    His Dollar General,

    Stores in Hartford
    Show no decay
    Gone are mornings
    From Paychecks
    To Walmart on Highway
    38 Selling priority
    In Post offices

    Never Sunshine
    Market full of recovery
    She was like poetry,
    Mother was beautiful,
    Her child played

    With plastic saxophone,
    Promised. Sometimes
    Sometimes Gifts laminate,
    Wood grateful
    In California
    Clearings cut

    Shall never see my
    Tall Douglas fir
    With grace
    Along Long’s Peak
    Colorado where
    He walked
    In 1988.

    Now his moist eyes
    Giving pain
    Loving mind,
    More concerned
    More compassion
    In his release,
    Equanimity.

    Gassho
    sat/lah
    Tai Shi
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  5. #205
    It is with rath agitated
    Fire Sermon given again
    Because Never gone in mind
    Set free, tamed child
    Of death, This Basic four
    There is suffering, there is death
    There is way out The eight fold
    Ukrainian path Bombed hospital
    This land his anger, In honesty?

    Fallen pestilence exploded
    In dirty snow Where do we sit today?
    Where do we go? Across Our Earth,
    In Odessa Boots on ground
    Because Peace Keeping Force.
    Another sunrise slips,
    Gone today Month of March
    Cold weather forecast, those
    Ides Caught in gunfire light,
    In no more division, no more
    Sight this Hope our vanishing
    Sniper light armed with automatic
    Riffle, this will be another fight
    Another Vietnam, all Thich
    Nhat Hanh's brave Buddha
    Words Sitting before us told
    Out Of our Peace is one who set
    Ablaze his promised Kessa?

    Another day I came
    Vietnamese woman wrote
    My final Instruction Professor's
    Student this only Last year I taught
    You did not sigh, you did not live
    Breathe of People's Park
    Of one woman sigh, Emily's Room,
    Woolf light her Light her own
    This is your blog of weather torn,
    Another rathe, child nursing,
    Said of Washin lead this Sunday
    Sit, or all we have. We do not doubt
    Blaze your rakusu, undaunted
    You are Resounding voice gone not
    For hundreds for People Sing,
    Electric light, your candle lost,
    Your candle bright.
    Interbeing testified in night.
    My electric tapper gone out
    Kyousui my Strong Waters
    Not disease, No masks, mistakes,
    He saved my

    Life not Thich Nhat Hanh, he is
    My Stroke Victim, not me this day
    Ashes hand to hand my AVM,
    Hanh's promise this promised
    Land Where did you go? Tsunami
    Continuation Quake level seven,
    Let our vision die out, our sight
    Let us be told of Being
    Peace handed your testament,
    Tell us today day you lead away,
    Day Who has gone to war, hands
    Sought as night, planes,
    Cannon in prairie firelight
    Burning alone, with others
    Fear they are nothing, who
    Is buried here Despair Sioux blown
    Apart funeral dug up graves, Dakota
    In Canton Native school killing
    Death of buried weapons.
    Death of death decay this day.
    Stay away from boarder hanging.
    Gassho
    dedicated to declined cultures
    Indigenous Places with everything
    At stake, our simple sitting.

    Lend a hand
    Tai Shi, all but
    Calm Poetry
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    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  6. #206
    Not Abandoned

    I am grateful
    Mixture, O2
    Of Great space
    Full, and my life
    Fills me, miracle
    Real physical
    Miracles made possible
    Over women and men
    This is a people of sweet
    Word people make me
    Smile the truism given

    Two to children,
    Who Onkai gave our
    Blessing everywhere,
    Threatened by big
    People, bigger omen,
    One treats children
    Of busy cupboard
    As little big people,
    When all in desire--
    Inosines, given to play
    Learning to be like
    Big people, are they
    Betrayed? To their
    Betrayal music
    Which powerful
    People advantaged
    Into innocence
    Wonder given
    To sentience
    Wise, Sapiential
    Wonder as growing

    Wise at seventy
    Their example even
    Pain festers in his spine
    Brain trust artificial
    Message to Oxygen
    Draw into body,
    Child breathe deeply
    Sometimes Oxygen
    Real seeking life
    Always bathing brain
    Of sweet air, life

    Until end of heart?
    What is end? Child
    As big people,
    Understand not
    Because they
    Are not big people,
    They do not see.
    Effort balances
    With abandoned
    Toy rocket ship
    Going to Moon
    Luminesce silver
    With doll on board.
    How many people,
    Packed innocence
    Control their tower
    Will find another life
    On Mars? Gift
    Under ground,
    Subway shelter,
    Smashed with rockets.

    Gassho
    sat/lah
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  7. #207
    I love them more
    Than they could
    Ever know, she has
    Taught me kindness
    I have taught he life
    Off loving. Our lives
    Together, teacher
    Research, we are
    Complement, she
    Says her life has
    Been the end of dreams,
    Mine came on July 22, 1987
    We know our dreams
    Were together with sobriety
    I found another dream
    More lasting, and finally
    More forgiving when I told
    Dad I love him, not wanting
    Always giving and finally
    One Zen Master, David
    Said," Better late than
    Never," it was not never,
    At 91, me almost, I told
    Him this, I had to work up
    To it, I know he was
    Waiting to hear it, Well
    I am 70. I don't want money
    Marjorie, your not
    A boy, you are a man
    So now recognizes
    Beauty in creating Laurel,
    I knew exactly what
    I was doing the ultimate love.
    Are both loving kindness.
    Finally I am poetry.
    Tai Shi
    Calm Poetry
    The Buddha's birthday!
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  8. #208
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    Thank you for sharing your lovely verses with us, Tai Shi-san.

    Gassho,
    Nengei
    Sat today. LAH.

  9. #209
    We pledged to mind
    To body, to healthy
    Sight in our thoughts,
    For her dreams, Kyousui
    Ours clean blood
    Scrubbed away hands
    Of soft cleanliness,

    Each to each,
    Gave memories
    For computers
    Keys tapping out
    Essence in poetry
    They sit listening
    Music of our voice
    His life immortality
    Related to harmony
    He listened then spoke
    Questing both, Kyousui

    Strong Watters,
    His promise come
    To nurse to save
    With gentle tone
    Strong enough
    To move stones,
    His face hidden
    Behind his beard,
    Ubasoku saved
    This listening ear,
    Knew fear except
    His friend might
    Die his friend, might die,
    Quick give Health for two
    One sister, the other
    Wife, he knew
    Did not Know
    Her food,
    Sweet nourishment
    Apples of the Sun
    Both found liberty
    Both accepted
    As if no where
    West together,
    Their tears
    Friendship
    Never end friend,
    Gave, then taught
    Friendship, for bond
    Broken not,

    Zazenkai in Omaha
    With Matt, Methodist
    Bright, Tai Shi
    Turned to Unity
    Universal Love

    Kyousui knew,
    American, Canterbury,
    Church of England
    First in flight
    Then not in fright,
    Let voice through
    Phones, unite
    Amplified, devices,

    Friend to friend
    He saved his life,
    Always Thank you
    He was right, said
    Strong Waters
    Yes to her, friend
    Never knew what he
    Said to Tai Shi's wife
    Poetry to Pearl
    Bright, safety light
    Stroke may come
    In AVM he did not
    Know, horrific loss

    His Thich Nhat Hanh
    Footsteps another
    Heart sutra of life,
    While friend felt
    Emptiness, no death
    Death, Old age
    No old age, no death
    Age, shared emptiness
    Does Death rely
    On vague sight,
    In the sky of clouds
    Gone beyond,
    Beyond rejection,

    Nurse long, Strong
    Ever Waters, ever
    Blood, first forced
    Flowing bright
    Sunlight his dog
    Fell sick, had
    To be put down
    Grave dug, friend helped
    The great Alone stood
    One companion
    Canine loyal all
    Those years, now
    Friendship gone,
    Taught to friend
    That loving song
    Teacher to be strong
    Taught loyalty,
    His brave longing,

    Call morning
    Noon or night,
    Doves found
    In flight, never far
    On safety fence
    Called out in peace
    Between two friends
    Debt never questioned
    There was none between
    Two friends, one nurse
    Computer tech, other
    Teacher, Poet Laurate,

    The other, farmer
    Stock, the man father
    To child, to mother
    Husband, the other
    Always nursing
    Some great pain

    Both abandoned
    In childhood,
    Ubasoku knew
    Grandmotherly,
    Both never cried
    Side by side
    Father's Fellowship,
    Part of sentiment
    Denied, one support
    Love's naturel as children
    Play one in Earling
    The other in Hartford
    Land of sky,
    Of clouds, the other
    Water strong

    Kyousui's priest of blood
    Called simple monk
    Began Finding breath
    To speak gift of calm
    Poetry, gift of friendship
    Shred his nursing,

    Powers. Teaches dawn
    Eternal introduction
    One to help the other
    Buddha's Golden Rule
    Help always
    In Loving Kindness
    Help each other
    Life eternal in poems
    One nurse, both teachers
    One in words, strong
    Waters saving blood
    The Ubsoku most
    In words calm, strong
    Emily Dickinson knew
    When deep bows
    To each, each gave
    Head coming off
    One AVM saved life
    His friend both
    Learned Buddha's steps
    In loving kindness

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  10. #210
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  11. #211
    Rich thank you for the gift gift of song gift of Haiku. Say Great Amen.

    Tai Shi


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  12. #212
    Quote Originally Posted by Tai Shi View Post
    Rich thank you for the gift gift of song gift of Haiku. Say Great Amen.

    Tai Shi


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    Thanks. Will post another one soon

    Sat/lah


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  13. #213
    Photo taken in Florida

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  14. #214
    One Buddhist Gives One Vision

    Bird song since February cold,
    Robins orange and gray, then stair
    Steps at end of April shelter

    Into body of angry bones to delay
    Bodies of war in Spring pain,
    Rain white on neighboring

    Sunday sit to stand with cane to help,
    With breath made whole, silence
    From trees outside Sutra green

    Defines without death, night opens
    To song before scorching earth,
    While Zazen cools Buddhist mind,

    Emptiness of will, summer comes
    Not today my Child crying for toys.
    Attacks are blown West in wind

    Gone making Global Warming hot,
    Pandemic defies life of ancient toil,
    Across Spring, burned wheat

    While parents cry for homes
    Made dirty bunkers. Temporary Peace
    Clay Lands on anonymous face

    Opening graves without fear. Try
    To understand storm clouds
    Of Death of food in Subway

    Shelter. Who feeds his child of war?
    Old in hiding shelter or young defying
    Missiles. Yellow light in blue sky.

    Loving kindness could prevail
    Metta chanting with those in Tonglen
    Quieting great minds of freedom.

    Gassho
    sat/lah
    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  15. #215
    That's beautiful, Tai Shi!

    Gassho
    Kokuu
    -sattoday-

  16. #216
    seeing that I want,
    I can stop wanting.
    seeing that I hate,
    I can stop hating.
    seeing that I love,
    I can stop loving,
    and just see

    Gassho

    Zenkon

  17. #217
    rushing rivers and,
    tranquil streams,
    all waters meet,
    in the same ocean

    Gassho

    Zenkon

  18. #218
    We are Ukrainian

    Sky green with moon, sky
    Moving up in clouds dense
    Gray, gray with brown, gone
    Mad today nothing,
    No Winter. Ice opposite
    To oppose living possibly
    Things to witness touching
    Weep for Lives suffering
    Color for the sun? Much
    Death of such Pain as this.
    Is this pain. Who can say,
    "I am Ukrainian?" on plain
    Beneath breathe, Sunset
    Blaze, look Into horizon
    Dusty clouds Scared.
    Life, Eternal not?

    Gassho
    sat/ lah
    Tai Shi


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  19. #219

  20. #220

    ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

    Over billions of years
    The universe
    Spun up elements
    Some evolved into fire

    Some say…

    “So,
    over billions of years
    It’s just how
    The universe evolved
    And spun up fire:

    Fire evolved
    With the inescapable
    Greed and desire
    To consume
    Everything
    And anything

    Tortured because
    The universe
    Has no care
    If a fire is satisfied

    Tortured
    With the inescapable
    Greed and desire
    To consume
    Everything
    And anything”

    Yes that is true.

    And…

    Fire can be contained
    Settling into one place

    In this moment
    The fire is perfect
    Complete
    And whole
    Not waiting
    To greedily
    Latch on to
    Everything and
    Anything

    Fire is just itself
    Never tortured
    Never waiting

    Because…

    Fire IS the billions of years
    That evolved itself into fire

    Fire is earth... And water
    Fire is air... And solid
    Fire is heat... And cold
    Consuming and consumed

    The fire is the universe
    Forever satisfied
    Even if not.

    Flowing upward
    The fire naturally lets go
    (It has no choice)
    Of its inescapable
    Greed and desire
    Not torturing itself
    To consume everything
    And anything
    And the moonlit sky
    Does not obstruct it’s
    Dangerous flames and
    Poisonous smoke
    To flow upward
    And float away

    (Please kindly look past the pretentiousness and length. It’s not a subtle “poem” or whatever it is, I’m not smart enough for subtlety.)

    Gassho,
    Tom

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  21. #221
    I like it Tom!

    "The dove descending breaks the air
    With flame of incandescent terror
    Of which the tongues declare
    The one discharge from sin and error.
    The only hope, or else despair
    Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre—
    To be redeemed from fire by fire."


    -- T S Eliot, Little Gidding


    Gassho
    Kokuu
    -sattoday-

  22. #222
    Quote Originally Posted by Kokuu View Post
    I like it Tom!

    "The dove descending breaks the air
    With flame of incandescent terror
    Of which the tongues declare
    The one discharge from sin and error.
    The only hope, or else despair
    Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre—
    To be redeemed from fire by fire."


    -- T S Eliot, Little Gidding


    Gassho
    Kokuu
    -sattoday-


    Gassho

    Tom

    Sat


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  23. #223
    Little Gidding was started after The Dry Salvages but was delayed because of Eliot's declining health and his dissatisfaction with early drafts of the poem. Eliot was unable to finish the poem until September 1942.[24] Like the three previous poems of the Four Quartets, the central theme is time and humanity's place within it. Each generation is seemingly united and the poem describes a unification within Western civilisation. When discussing World War II, the poem states that humanity is given a choice between the bombing of London or the Holy Spirit. God's love allows humankind to redeem itself and escape the living hell through purgation by fire; he drew the affirmative coda "All shall be well" from medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. The end of the poem describes how Eliot has attempted to help the world as a poet, and he parallels his work in language with working on the soul or working on society.[25] Wikipedia
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  24. #224

  25. #225
    Fire caught my spine.
    Asked my father, "Dad,
    How is your back, what's
    Your Day like?" "Oh son
    It's like fire." I put away
    Telling him it's like everyone
    I listened. Telling him this,
    "Dad, I've thought a long
    Time, and I've thought
    How to tell you this. I love
    You dad." He him's haws
    Changes, "Dad, I'm not
    Interested in money."
    Almost miss, then we
    Talk about his day, comfort.

    Two weeks later, my loved
    One, our Pearl, I Sold everything
    For her, bought her Pearls
    Glass adorning Her window,
    "I'm in this for the Long haul.
    That's what men On trains
    Pulling out from station.
    Longest trip." Our age, she
    Is 67. me 70. I'm there to the end,
    Till death do us start. Only
    Three vows in my life, one
    To The Dove, one to
    The Precepts, The one to her,
    Lives together death an end
    Loyalty biggest, how could
    Renonce? How could renounce?
    I would rather cut off my arm
    Sitting nine years in caves?
    Are stories real? Grains of truth
    To save me our lives, all sentient
    Beings. Jesus, Bodhidharma,
    Loving Buddhas, alone, on sundials
    Measured time of silence.

    Gassho
    sat/ lah
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  26. #226
    As spring flowers bloom
    Mockingbirds sing at sunrise
    Fragrant dew settles

    Sat/lah


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  27. #227
    One step at a time
    Towards new present moments
    Without the dead past

    Sat/lah


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  28. #228
    We End our Father's Day

    Dream of poetry, solitary
    Alabaster crystal helps our lives
    With Worlds once oxygen,

    Speech Becomes seeds of hope,
    Red of single ancient flavored,
    Sun at 3:00 p.m. of stoneless cut.

    Solitary twelve great white rocks
    Transformed into me, watered
    Love run away, don't run!

    Words shimmer in afternoons,
    Rising speech worlds bright orbs
    Quietly unwholesome, emptiness

    You are Not forgotten, DAD don't die!
    Truthfully, I weep for father's voice
    Once again, I don't leave; I comfort him.

    Dad, don't go!
    Fatherhood cannot resume it's days
    Quietly to speak words without pain.

    Gassho
    sat/ lah
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  29. #229
    You on the wet rock,
    Raging water crashes around,
    I will hold you dry.

    Gassho
    SatToday

  30. #230
    With friends such as these,
    How could I ever know the pain of loneliness?
    A warbler cries in the mist

    Gassho,
    Nengyoku
    Sat
    Sat

  31. #231
    The sound of green.
    Eyes half closed light,
    breathe deep summers.

    Gassho,
    Artien
    Sat

  32. #232
    Realization
    August I'm ready for more
    Change of yellow days,

    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  33. #233
    Our soft, old, gray cat
    Jumps on me in morning
    Light; I've not fed her yet.

    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  34. #234
    Feeding the Cat

    Our soft, old, gray cat
    Jumps on me in morning
    Light; I've not fed her yet.
    When I greet her she is delight.
    She gulps flesh of something.
    One more great stomach,
    She's felt secure, now feeds
    On last morsal of delight.

    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  35. #235
    July wanes like half moon in sky
    Of my summer light from window
    Approaching my Wednesday.
    Soft cool air, silage on the wind,
    Fresh singing from neighbors
    Who must be drunk again.
    This is my time of promises
    When day comes like my old dog,
    While I write poetry. Revisions,
    Twenty-two days into decisions
    I made long ago not to drink,
    Strong my desire for your touch,
    Magnanimous heart when young.
    I'm 70-years into my winter now.
    Facing one more hard delusion
    Smashed, less substance in my blood.
    I'm free once more from fate. Still,
    Thirty-five years, five days passed.

    Tai Shi
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-27-2022 at 07:04 PM.
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  36. #236
    A moment of just,
    A big tree,
    A Universe full of me,
    All stars and dust.

    Gassho,
    Artien
    Sat.

  37. #237
    Sitting in the Exquisite

    I shall always live alone
    With loneliness, my diseases
    Which taught me living
    Friends walk away, all
    Dead are with me, I wait
    For father's dust to join
    His three wives in death,
    All I see is disgust in eyes,
    I walk west making dust.
    One day we all pass away,
    Stars which formed me,
    Alone, even with my wife
    Who calls my wailing at four
    Rain which comes in hundreds
    Of painful disgusting winds,
    Knows not equanimity
    Of my crushing load, she
    Buys me sandwiches,
    While I stay at home her
    Delight to Put me to bed,
    At eleven O'clock, my desire,
    Hold her in my arms
    To comfort her compulsions,
    Her dying song which grows,
    I walk alone, my feet hurt
    In Discomfort turn to dead
    Tears, she calls me ignorant.
    Too emotional, straighten
    Up, my painful bones crack right
    In shoulder, left I cannot move
    Hand. Creak in back,
    In morning darkness at eight
    O'clock. Alone as men start
    Give Gas to pickups, enter
    Solitude. Alone in big cab
    For People. Never share rides
    With anyone, alone we never
    Meet Except knowing I will
    Complete my M.F.A. word art
    Praise in writing, exultations
    Another of my beautiful poems,
    Joy in Lonesome poetry, verses
    Of my fear, of being alone
    At four O'clock. I reach out
    To say my brain surgery
    Was successful, I've read
    More books in seven months
    Than they have read in life.
    Perhaps in dust they turn
    To stars, they leave like me
    I will comfort finally growth.
    They will live as star dust
    So exquisite. I follow breath
    I follow them, I follow my wife.
    As we meet with gusts
    Of solar wind, radiation created.
    I finally meet my daughter.
    I finally hold my wife to comfort all.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    sat alone
    Helped by another.
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-28-2022 at 02:01 PM. Reason: small edit
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  38. #238
    Sitting in the Exquisite

    I shall always live alone
    With loneliness, my diseases
    Which taught me living
    Friends walk away, all
    Dead are with me, I wait
    For father's dust to join
    His three wives in death,
    All I see is disgust in eyes,
    I walk west making dust.
    One day we all pass away,
    Stars which formed me,
    Alone, even with my wife
    Who calls my wailing at four
    Rain which comes in hundreds
    Of painful disgusting winds,
    Knows not equanimity
    Of my crushing load, she
    Buys me sandwiches,
    While I stay at home her
    Delight to Put me to bed,
    At eleven O'clock, my desire,
    Hold her in my arms
    To comfort her compulsions,
    Her dying song which grows,
    I walk alone, my feet hurt
    In Discomfort turn to dead
    Tears, she calls me ignorant.
    Too emotional, straighten
    Up, my painful bones crack right
    In shoulder, left I cannot move
    Hand. Creak in back,
    In morning darkness at eight
    O'clock. Alone as men start
    Give Gas to pickups, enter
    Solitude. Alone in big cab
    For People. Never share rides
    With anyone, alone we never
    Meet Except knowing I will
    Complete my M.F.A. word art
    Praise in writing, exultations
    Another of my beautiful poems,
    Joy in Lonesome poetry, verses
    Of my fear, of being alone
    At four O'clock. I reach out
    To say my brain surgery
    Was successful, I've read
    More books in seven months
    Then they read about life.
    Perhaps in dust they turn
    To stars, they leave like me
    I will finally grow.
    They will live as stardust
    So exquisite. I follow breath
    I follow them, I follow my wife.
    As we meet with gusts
    From the solar wind, radiation is created.
    I finally met my daughter.
    I finally held my wife to comfort her.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    sat alone
    Helped by another
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-28-2022 at 02:30 PM. Reason: Final edit, final poetry of exaltation
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  39. #239
    Sitting in the Exquisite

    I shall always live alone
    With loneliness, my diseases
    Which taught me living
    Friends walk away, all
    Dead are with me, I wait
    For father's dust to join
    His three wives in death,
    All I see is disgust in eyes,
    I walk west making dust.
    One day we all pass away,
    Stars which formed me,
    Alone, even with my wife
    Who calls my wailing at four

    Rain which comes in hundreds
    Of painful disgusting winds,
    Knows not equanimity
    Of my crushing load, she
    Buys me sandwiches,
    While I stay at home her
    Delight to Put me to bed,
    At eleven O'clock, my desire,
    Hold her in my arms
    To comfort her compulsions,
    Her dying song which grows,
    I walk alone, my feet hurt
    In Discomfort turn to dead
    Tears, she calls me ignorant.
    Too emotional, straighten
    Up, my painful bones crack right
    In shoulder, left I cannot move
    Hand. Creak in back,
    In morning darkness at eight
    O'clock. Alone as men start
    Give Gas to pickups, enter
    Solitude. Alone in big cab
    For People. Never share rides
    With anyone, alone we never
    Meet Except knowing I will
    Complete my M.F.A. word art
    Praise in writing, exultations
    Another of my beautiful poems,
    Joy in Lonesome poetry, verses
    Of my fear of being alone.


    Others sit At four O'clock.
    To say my brain surgery
    Was successful, I've read
    More books in seven months
    Then they read about life.
    Perhaps in dust they turn
    To stars, they leave like me
    I will finally grow.
    They will live as stardust
    So exquisite. I follow breath
    I follow them, I follow my wife.
    As we meet with gusts
    From the solar wind, radiation is created.
    I finally met my daughter.
    I finally held my wife to comfort her.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    sat alone
    Helped by another
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-28-2022 at 02:56 PM. Reason: final edit with stanzas
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  40. #240
    Lovely poem, Tai Shi!


  41. #241
    I've only just stumbled across this thread, what a great idea, and I think I need to start from the beginning and work my way through. A small offering from me, off the cuff...

    How can words express that which is beyond expression?
    The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
    Yet there is something behind or within the words,
    Something that shakes my sense of who and what I am,
    Leaving me grasping at the broken threads of self.

    Leaving my desk I go outside to inhale and exhale.
    It is warm, my skin feels good, and I relax.
    Children laugh and shout, car tyres screech and fade,
    leaving only the chatter of the birds. My last thought,
    "No deeper meaning than reality just as it is".




    Tokan (satlah)

  42. #242
    Her Journey to Breathe

    Journey with me down,
    What first appeared zazen
    Becoming Free, appearing
    Obstacle course of course
    Becoming college courses
    Because college, so very very
    Difficult for me with twenty-two
    Years I faltered then gave, give
    These hundred page papers
    I can see my back through her,
    My circuitous route through
    My brain surgery. I bow I am
    Those papers become Eliot
    Milton gray cat. Bow for food
    Here, to bow again and know
    Acceptance for altered time,
    First time, I am her fashioning
    Her stolid look my pain emerges,
    Her first breath so our child cries,
    I am not worthy, I am worthy.
    This resembles my breath.
    I breathe again. It is time, it is
    Father, are you Music? I do love
    With all my heart, I will in mind,
    Wisdom I enfold into flowers,
    Lotus Sutra, calluses, wonder
    Of My hands, this pained shares,
    I so share to see our pain as
    Child was given back to me
    To look at beauty is free. Silent,
    Free as a woman this time to be.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    sat/lah
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-07-2022 at 04:41 PM. Reason: love
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  43. #243
    leon, please, such delight, I accept this time and place, I am on my computer giving praise. Can you make more joy?

    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  44. #244
    Quote Originally Posted by Tai Shi View Post
    leon, please, such delight, I accept this time and place, I am on my computer giving praise. Can you make more joy?

    Tai Shi
    Inspired by your beautiful words my friend

    Gassho, Toakn (satlah)

  45. #245
    Sat on my zafu, sun streaming through the window,
    The net floating on the breeze, wavering patterns on the carpet.
    I recall once sitting here with the vigour of youth,
    spine erect, energy tingling through my body,
    not a hint of pain, a mind empty of a life not yet lived.

    Now the eyelids hang heavy, the threat of yawns - begone!
    Pah! Tiredness, sore knees, a back that will not yield.
    Only the mind is more supple these days, such that it accepts these woes.
    My younger self would not have understood,
    The place these battle scars take, alongside the good.



    Tokan (satlah)

  46. #246
    In State Park Flowers

    Time after time, Roses
    Bloom of Black Eyed Susan, Begonias
    Time of flower smell over in flight
    for, less flowers more exhaust, people
    Exploding, Pizza, Hamburger, pic nick
    Not Lemonade from Connivence Store?

    Enter child, three or four or five, popsicle
    Suddenly Buddha Nature fills corner
    Of dozens of flowers, some already in late
    August gone to seed, more Stupas,
    Of Day Lilies where lay the Hip Bones

    Of the Buddha, Remember thus, We
    All have capacity to become Bodhisattvas.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  47. #247
    Do Not Think

    Pain whitens bones
    In August while the next
    Rain will wait for ended
    Sides like at first pandemic
    Now invented; more strains as
    Public gets used to Chinese
    Strains of viruses, so monkey
    Pox invented to deal boasts
    Of genetic engineering
    To round eyes, destruction
    In love nested lovers beginning,
    Destroying another child in womb,
    Deaminizing our eyes she gets
    Inside. No one is listening,
    In paradise without eyes.
    My body wracked with pain
    Wrist sieve around flesh
    Without pupils dilatated flesh
    Written over in delicious ending.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  48. #248
    Buddha Heaven

    While they rest on earth,
    Dream like blossoms
    Last blooms of Summer.
    Time for Fall of Life
    Another day she witnessed
    As they flew partners of insight,
    As Dogen wrote geese to zenith
    Flock of honesty our kindred,
    Eating grain, seeds, breathe of air,
    Water so clean. Time, January 10th,
    2016, memory of Jukai,
    As father left his heritage,
    Wisdom mirage, this birthright,
    Claimed at year's greatest Ango,
    Contemplation, essence,
    Washed with rain, tears
    Clean recovered air,
    Green growing earth,
    Sky blue, brown growth.
    Brightest future moral worth,
    Memory of Buddha robes
    Plainly adorned, alms bowls,
    Our rakusu, thus sun, this light
    Evening, noon, morning
    Forth symmetry solid
    Future sight, chlorophyl
    Planting, universal stars
    Their loving kindness,
    Revie revealed indivisible
    Side by side their fates
    Intertwined in serenity
    Child come true, mortality,
    Their universal.

    Tai Shi, calm poetry
    Deepest Bows,
    Our Gassho.
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-25-2022 at 04:27 PM. Reason: edit
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  49. #249
    Surrounding disgrace
    Into anger, into face,
    Wounded leg, let us
    Come, let me freeze
    Blood blocks of ice
    Reverence realize
    Job, child of wisdom,
    den of hope, death
    Come be gone
    Sediment sucked,
    Despair of chemistry,
    Dashed rocks, ice
    Wrapped sting,
    Of Fire, nephrology,
    Protein found
    Cancer, will biopsy
    Ultimate fear,
    Dashed against
    Ulcered ingredient,
    Face survive,
    Buddha constrained
    Feet of Buddha
    Man like me,
    Buddha golden
    Statue with pain?
    Joy, no joy, death, no
    No death, moon
    No moon, Cloud on cloud,
    Buddha, Ananda,
    Shariputra, I ask
    Emptiness, no birth
    No one, Softly silence
    Emptiness gone
    Shante, Shante, Shante.
    Old men pass away.
    Free like Buddha
    Like tree, like leaf,
    Like Me, like immortality.

    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    Last edited by Tai Shi; 11-02-2022 at 12:59 PM. Reason: edit
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

  50. #250
    Revisions

    Crisp smoke on autumn
    days fills air, bright mornings
    Simple brown earth, every
    Evidence shows more gray
    No green next year, crops
    Corn, beans, alfalfa, what
    To feed each other, what
    To grow?
    Gassho
    Tai Shi
    Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆

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