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Koans
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......
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kevin mathenia
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; ......
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Lady Labyrinth
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......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
koans,
spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Lady Labyrinth
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......
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Lady Labyrinth
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......
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Unseeking Seeker
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......
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M. L. Kiser
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 ......
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Matthew Anish
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 ......
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Andrew Rymill
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......
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Justin Debrosse
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......
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Nola Perez
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......
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Rainer Loveiam
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......
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Rainer Loveiam
Categories:
koans,
funny, inspirational,
Form:
ABC