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Koan Poems - Poems about Koan


Premium Member One petal alone opens
A lone petal unfurls not a bloom, not a flower, no use to bees, as one decrepit. It's on its knees trying to please all alone. It's an echo of a question, yet to be asked. It's a pose, unpoised, unprompted. It's one eye, nose, or ear, in defaced mask. It's a one-handed clap, an air-kiss from poked puckered lips It's a hand-shake request never returned....

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Categories: koan, anxiety, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just a long koan
My emotions I am honest now I am telling the truth Always Yes I need life Lives in the past My loved past Black and white My pure Monochrome Life Where? Smoked past Dried heart Mine From death and suffering of life Dead soul passing light crystal flying A heart Mine Calling Cross the life Gone From this Life My emotion is the life My stream is evil My life is Satan Lifesaver of my life I am Satan Emotions from past Just need Loved heart Save me Past Give New life I need Love My life is evil Dark star from...

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Categories: koan, fate, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Empty evenings
Empty evenings Empty evenings, yet full Spent alone Evening, I have no other life; night Darkness brings me hope Light...

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Categories: koan, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Koan
sounds of silence one hand clapping most hear not because they are napping what is that that does not come and go we know not but can become sublime elixir of life’s flow if thoughts cease altogether subject and object disappear identity shorn, as the twice born what’s that that does then appear where lies fulcrum of a scent wherefrom arises in hearts hope what is...

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Categories: koan, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Stillness Koan
Expanding bubbles within bubbles within bubbles Circumference nowhere, yet centres multiple Free flowing in the current, although the self is still Awareness still, yet expanding within unified will 01-November-2020...

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Categories: koan, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stand Then Sit
A Zen Koan So you don’t understand a zen koan? To you, it makes no sense? Then get some sense and apply it! Everything has a polar opposite that’s how things are; think deeply to soar higher; you must learn to stand, before you can sit. ...

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Categories: koan, image, imagery, imagination, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Within a Koan Poem
Soul is soul; soul does what it does, a daunting task, soul within itself, without. ...

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Categories: koan, appreciation, inspiration, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Koan -A Pleiades
Kings ask of wise men while Kids can see simple truth Kensho shows suddenly Keeping students up late Knocking loudly the door Knowledge comes in silence Kindness will answer all...

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Categories: koan, poems,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Permacultural Koan
I love this koan from 1,000 years ago, or more. "What is it? Medicine and sickness mutually correspond. The world is medicine. What is the Self?" by10th c. Zen Master Yunmen So, yes, Self for me is Ego"sickness", deductively and reductively self-composed of bipolar AngryPast v FutureFear, trying to figure out a narrow path toward healthy hearty love as...

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Categories: koan, anger, fear, health, love,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member The Zen Koan As Poem - Same Question - Part One
The Master said: “How do you stop Time from running?” Said Monk-Disciple 1: “By running backwards against Time.’ Said Monk-Disciple 2: “By running backwards facing Time.” Said Monk-Disciple 3: “By running backwards and looking ...

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Categories: koan, mystery, psychological, time,
Form: I do not know?
Zen Koan
I feel the changes The coolness Damp breezes Flowing in waves The future holds us As does the now As yesterday is let go There in the distance We feel the winters touch Yet what's this I hear Across the mountains Whispered by the streams. Even a sailing leaf I see it touch your hand. We shall look with eyes Eyes that breath of love To hold us in our now That...

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Categories: koan, spiritual, , cute,
Form: Free verse

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