Zen Death Haiku V
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU V
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
A cat in heat
can't catch a mouse? —
pathetic!
—Kinpu, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
It's...
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Categories:
philosophizes, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku
A Natural Woman
...She writes like Maya
She sings like Aretha
She dreams like Coretta
She reads like Oprah
She speaks like Barbara
She plays like Serena
She rocks like Tina
She rolls like Donna
She entertains l...
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Categories:
philosophizes, celebration, flower, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme
My Spiritual Journey
...It makes twenty years this year
Since it happened,
The jolt, the electric shock rather,
Pushed into me and which bid me
To try searching for my soul,
Or, to awake to my inner consciousness,
To ...
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Categories:
philosophizes, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Love Philosophizes
...Love philosophizes:
I will eulogize obstruction
I will displace your obstruction
You and I are one. Frugally: - “Who can be this one” Squealing! - “The free seller”. The seller is fled and I know his...
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Categories:
philosophizes, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
He Brought Us Music
...Many times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past that I wished for so deeply.
I would feel a certain peaceful joy, hovering...
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Categories:
philosophizes, devotion, religion, christmas, longing,
Form: Blank verse
Delirious Philosophies
...When we are delirious
with the delirium of sickness
we begin to ask those ?'s
what is the meaning of life?
Is there a God?
Heaven and Hell?
Is time circular, like the mandala
spherical like...
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Categories:
philosophizes, introspection
Form: Free verse