Tag: poetry
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mushin || day 179: war 戦争
culture wars: so many bodies littering every avenue no peace on the horizon what a senseless waste This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely […]
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taghairm
push me tomantic slumberunder covera stone weighingon my breathseethingi recall yesterdaysand futures forgotten
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cleaning up
weary of pill dependency i cull all from my regular diet i wonder often if it is Rx pills that make me ill…
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new moon t’morrow
new moon t’morrow midsummer slides through veils and venues rebuild renew recast temper steel for horizons’ storms come flowing into youth i said i saw the flames beating air with blind eyes i scry those scenes anew goodbye to the mask shells cast aside walking out nude
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mushin || day 178: childhood 幼年
trying to polish fractured jade to unblemished crystal wishing I might see as a child again This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because […]
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life of the…
my head on a platestill chatting awayat the beheading feastgunfire wordsno one’s innocent
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hazelnuts
hazelnut pondhazelnut treeshapechange merun river runinfuse spirit bloodtransmogrify mei am the breathi am the stonei am the blazei am the thorn
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mushin || day 177: unfortunate 不運な
years lost to distraction but wisdom gained not wasted just a meandering path This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen […]
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black clouds rising
shrieking and frenzysliding throughfogged shorespainted eyes kohleyes gone mad andskin’s writhing runesblack clouds risingbehind
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beyond nine crests coming
hunting under new moon ghost-wandering the tortoise shell understone you & me fractured by light beating boneheart while rending skies with spears her shadow song rides western winds
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