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The Water-Bucket

Night leaks from the water-bucket, it flows onto bedraggled phlox. The black water is full, I cannot even see the bucket. The moon floats as a lily pad in the blackness. The purple phlox spills drowning into dawn light.

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Date: 9/26/2019 11:20:00 AM
Beautiful poetry Eric. Nicely done!
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Eric Ashford
Date: 9/26/2019 11:53:00 AM
Thank you Caren!
Date: 9/26/2019 10:22:00 AM
Thank you Sir Jack! The poem is a riff on the enlightenment poem of the Zen poet Chiyono - 'No Water-No Moon' It goes like this - "With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together, and then the bottom fell out. Where water does not collect, the moon does not dwell." Cheers!
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Date: 9/26/2019 9:44:00 AM
Crazy but fascinating... thoroughly enjoyed it Sir Eric!
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