Zen Haiku.
Zen Haiku
The full moon.
Twigs reticulate the white disc.
Chaos over order.
In the fireplace tonight
Flames flicker brightly.
Little white moths, beware.
The hazy moon.
Fractaled treetops dance the flamenco,
Air waves for partners.
In the darkness
One filament clings to me.
Sorry, Mrs. Eight Legs.
Filaments of light
Stretch from the full moon to me.
A spider spins her web.
The full moon is still.
The trees are still.
One cicada rubs his belly.
No moon, no meteors,
No cicadas squawking.
Just leaves' tick-tock talk.
In this still and starry night,
The world I sense holds its breath --
So do I.
The dark trees slid past
As I walked through the night
With my constellations.
In the morning breeze
A dry bronze oak leaf shuffles along
Beside me.
In the rain
The tall petunia flower bends over
Protectively.
The full moon.
As I watch, it slowly slides behind a tree.
Who's moving?
I call these poems "Zen Haiku haiku (hī`k  ), an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. " because each one describes
occurrences that seemed to have a mysterious relationship. My empathic em·path·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by empathy. Adj. 1. empathic - showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor" empathetic awareness of this relationship gave me a Zen-like kindred KINDRED. Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and other ascendants. 3. feeling of not-twoness. I have still another reason to call them "Zen Haiku." Zen training emphasizes a distinct mode of relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc life's circumstances more nearly as they actually exist rather than as we may fancy them to be. In my descriptions, I have rigorously attempted to keep out any mention or hint of my own fancies and personal feelings. Whatever momentary mo·men·tar·y adj. 1. Lasting for only a moment. 2. Occurring or present at every moment: in momentary fear of being exposed. 3. Short-lived or ephemeral, as a life. enlightenment Enlightenment, term applied to the mainstream of thought of 18th-century Europe and America. Background and Basic Tenets The scientific and intellectual developments of the 17th cent. comes to you as you create each situation in your mind will be your own. |
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