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There's a Buddha In There Somewhere

The snow's drifting my mind's drifting... Five foot bamboo now stands at two under blizzard's remains measuring maybe three. Here in the bamboo garden, bowed but unbowed by Winter's weight, the evergreen kisses its own feet, the Earth altar receives prostrations. There's a Buddha in there somewhere. The snow, Oh-so pure so white, so tailored to fit, every nook, every fold the entirety of entirety. The snow, though white, how soonafter tinged by grime, and trodden black. My mind, Oh-so sure so right, so failured. Dimwit, every nook, every fold the entirety of entire me (the entire me of entirety?) There's a Buddha in there somewhere.

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Date: 2/5/2019 4:41:00 PM
This is wonderful! Clever tHere! xomo
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Stephe Watson
Date: 2/5/2019 4:54:00 PM
Yes. The there is there for those who may depart the now. The here is there for those such as you. Thank you! :)
Date: 2/5/2019 2:57:00 PM
"there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" (leonard cohen)
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Sand Blown
Date: 2/6/2019 2:23:00 PM
yes i am a fan of leonard cohen...perhaps you could write the writ that you wrote on his death?
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Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 2/5/2019 4:40:00 PM
:)))
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Stephe Watson
Date: 2/5/2019 4:18:00 PM
Interestingly, I had just now posted on Facebook a similar quote. With a photo. Yay for Leonard. Are you a fan? I have a funeral piece here I wrote at his death.

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