Zazen Poems - Poems about Zazen

Seijaku

...As the sun goes west of my school building
day's tiring trying work starts to windup
ears tremble mildly to hear school bell ring
Joy quickens to brush away lesser thing

My own loving heart her...

Categories: zazen, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Chinese translations Li Bai

...Li Bai translations

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael...

Categories: zazen, age, bird, farewell, goodbye,
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: zazen, muse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Contingency

...The moon gazes
through April’s silver maple.

To work, to drive,
to drive to work.

Earth's half-in, half-out
of the sun’s habitable zone.

The rushing stream topples old trees;
the peacefu...

Categories: zazen, april, death, earth, happy,
Form: Free verse

Zazen

...My head is calm
My space is zen
I glide and I meander
Manoeuver in a psychic hovercraft
I’m in my private bubble
Impervious to noise around me
Blissfully cut off from outsiders
Their bitter wo...

Categories: zazen, introspection, peace, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Is There Any Escape From Noise

...Is there any escape 
from noise?
A crash, a rattle, a spoon in a cup
No rest for the wicked
Insistent buzzing piled up

Blaring horns
Lighted signs
Engines screaming in ears
So many angered ...

Categories: zazen, life,
Form: Rhyme

Zazen

...1. God is full, full of rain,
    and dry, dry as light.

2. The clock-man winds his clock
    spending many an hour.
    The clock, however, winds itself;
    if he knew that, he would not was...

Categories: zazen, god, inspiration, nonsense, spiritual,
Form: Epigram

Take the Ripe Plum

...How far from nature and life it is
the gray clouds, airplanes in them
the night cooing and pigeons roosting
Sirma's garden gone to roses and seed

                        That airplane overhead!...

Categories: zazen, beautiful, day, garden, moon,
Form: Verse

Black Sun Rising

...changing dawn to dusk
second hand eternal turning
nights of spirit, senseless knight
indescribable yet earthly yearning

night side world melts into glass
black sun rising at our core
stars as...

Categories: zazen, change,
Form: I do not know?

Ryokan

...I have followed him to his hermitage.
Stalked by loneliness he has revealed
a better way and shared with me Zazen
through writings and the sound of the
Hototogisu.

I have carried him on the tube
and...

Categories: zazen, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse

Paradox

...Anger- what is it?
  what color is it?
And, what can we liken it to?

Is it the thing that we feel before counting to TEN?
Or is it why many Buddhists reflect in Zazen?
Could it be White, like ...

Categories: zazen, imagination
Form: Couplet