Koans Poems - Poems about Koans

answer me know i don't, now

...decision Buddha
decide there is no mission
i hate light
they will ever speak
never spear my ink's
my ink's compass
truist
again, decide we aren't a mission
tall clouds can't be ware?
limp an...

Categories: koans, easter, fate, french, gothic,
Form: Spoken Word

The Vagaries

...


"The Vagaries"

You could go all Zen over Me,
I’d listen studiously, then, spit it out 
like cherry seeds for integration

the flesh of it all,
"The Past", savoured;
...

Categories: koans, muse,
Form: Narrative

Origin of Koans

...that that is embodied
by being and seeing
therefore knowing
and becoming
as definitive
wisdom
transcends
beyond doubt
caricatures of scriptures
interpreted by mind
that’s conditione...

Categories: koans, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Flipping the Bluebirds

...
“Flipping the Bluebirds” 

There’s no point playing
Norwegian Wood
when your keyboard’s 
like a gun calling  

murdering 
all your darlings 
for other meaningful
glori...

Categories: koans, muse, mystery, riddle,
Form: Free verse

Sitting With Koans

...
"Sitting with Koans" 

Zazen sits zafu'd in the zendo
with the poetic monkey minds
echoing the sound of two hands clapping
producing sound bites bitten like Botticelli repr...

Categories: koans, muse,
Form: Free verse

Perils of Self-Luminescence

...The light that lights the sun
Shines within our glowing heart
Cognised when we come all undone
Whereupon bliss ignition within us starts

Eternal noumenon manifesting phenomena 
Inn...

Categories: koans, light, muse,
Form: Rhyme

I Drowned In the Light

...I've been writing some Koans.  A Koan is a sort of poem that is a puzzle.  On the surface it may make no sense whatsoever but, with thought, the answer comes. :


My soul was so thirsty...

Categories: koans, deep, inspiration, introspection, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Nightime Revelations

...After  a day of mixed hopes and disappointments 
I lay down upon my old mattress
and watch 
    the television station where thy play new age music
    and offer poignant quotes
      sometimes ...

Categories: koans, introspection, peace,
Form: Concrete

The Best Koans Make Ice-Cream Cones

...It hard to know
Why i was expelled
From the fundamentals of poetry.

Each day 
Like a loyal monk
i played my flute
With the basket
Over my head.
As the lemmings
Passed
In quadrangles of coe-eds.
For ...

Categories: koans, creation, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

The Unknowable Origin of Voice

...Pen scribbles incantation 
As the writing reveals itself suddenly
Reveling thought unburdens its borrowed code
Bodies dance to release their outpouring presence

Humanly, we wait
A readership to hawk...

Categories: koans, allegory, art, death,
Form: Free verse

Depression Poems While the Guitar Player Tunes Up At Sandy Bottoms

...1.  Inevitability

The rain will come
and be rude.
The wind blow away
all quietude.
Erase it?

Debase it?
You have no power
and when it's
your hour, you'll 
go, you know.

2. Drowning 

My foot tappi...

Categories: koans, introspection, me,
Form: Rhyme

A Job Is a Job

...Incognito
I am a Zen master
I am in the Enlightenment business
Let’s become partners
And enlighten others
I am almost broke
And cannot afford to sell Thai noodles 
In the night market
The queues at t...

Categories: koans, parody,
Form: I do not know?

A Job Is a Job

...Incognito
I am a Zen master
I am in the Enlightenment business
Let’s become partners
And enlighten others
I am almost broke
And cannot afford to sell Thai noodles 
In the night market
The que...

Categories: koans, funny, inspirational,
Form: ABC