[ARTS]: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

[Tai Shi]

There are three loves
Two past loved too much
One grasped, then sent
Away, we were 20, we
Were angry for the sweater
She gave; did not knit
Me, her bathing suit, her
Towel, The second beer
And drugs, stein clay
Original, from Germany,
In there was on long ago
Did she know if it was
My child, or no child?
I never knew, then
There is this fimal. She
I have dedicated my life
Too, also, Oh, given my
Forty-four years, that
Little apartment in Iowa
City, that rustic apartment
In Iowa City, you gave me
All, I gave you part which
I thought was all, I had
Been hurt, three times before,
But you did I count
One who was only brief
She could not study
She left our college,
Enamored of scintillating
Situation, then you,
Ours was with even
A priest, ordered
From your mother
Your plod, plod, plod
To altars of choice,
Signed our document
We had passed two bloody
Blood tests, we traveled
That summer to Ship Rock,
New Mexico, seventh
Sacred mountain of Navajo,
Though I drank on res,
I lost pictures, all but one
Of Maroon Bells, after
Sobriety, it was just one
Year, you gave your body
Fully for our child, she gave
My all for your complete
To us, three, you gave
Our family, I had new
Family, I was orphaned
You had orphanage,
We two lost spirits
Had lost our way, I wept
For you, for myself,
Your rejections of Gods,
Your mother's death, me
With cloak of majesty, my
Friend failed, said heaven
Explained, I taught
Purgatoire was your myth,
Your thought no checked
References, mother wrong
Most we took in old age
After love's sport was
Just haze, we played
If our game taught us
One thing, how committed
We are in old age, forty-one
Years two months away from
Your God of rejection
I am the same never sure
Again, what we found
Deep everlasting reverence
For commitment, life of love
Our abode, our abode
Never did you attack me
We nor them have you
Desired, house with wood
Francine envied our life,
Our commitment of love
My Buddhism I pray let
My disease, not make
Me crippled, work, work
To ease my back so that
You and me, can pass
Our 80th year, you three
Years behind, I will always
Wait for you, always
Wait for you, though heat
For you is cold for me,
Our new furnace installed
Coming Saturday, gift
For me in my cold room
How I have come to love you,
I am seventy-two, why so long
Why did it take so long, why
Do we part, you deny years
If sport, except found
Morality in Buddhist precepts,
Our majesty, explained, found
True love, eternally we
Accept Buddhist heaven,
This our love eternally.
Deepest bows
Sat yesterday
Nor 23 hours
!/2 ago, I am found
My Priesthood, she is
My second place
Devotion passed
For Ubasoku, another
Day will bring
Another sting, sting
Let us run, run
To make old sol fire
Upon flood, polar bear,
Kindness we found
Only in each other.

Gassho
Great bows
sat/ lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

One Moment at a Time

for Kokuu, Meian, and Jundo

Es gut mir Heute
So I drank my way
Through Bavaria
In Germany,
I live my life one
Day at a Time,
Sometimes one moment,
My inflammation
Causes me to be
Everly mindful, today.

I pulled back my curtains
In my study, beheld
My dozens and dozens
O books of poetry,
The last a gift of daughter,
Migrations, WS Merwin
Buddhism soaked through
These pages, reverence
For life began
With my decision 10:00
Morning, sunny days
In The Rocky Mountains
In Fort Collins, CSU
Parking lot I made my
Decision to abstain
From All Ethyl
Alcohol, a promise I have Kept
Since Monday July 22, 1987,
More than half my life,
Yesterday that I
Affirmed my adherence,
To my entire promise since
That date, nor have
I abused Provider's
Orders, excuse, I cleared
Off my breakfast dishes,

I Sat Zazen for 27 minutes
Began about 8:00,
Studied Constitutional law,
Shall I see window now
Slant light, Shadow
May I ever be
Mindful one Day at a Time
Sometimes One moment
At a Time.

Tai Shi
Charles Elgwyn Taylor

[Kokuu]

Tai Shi, do you still read your Messenger? I sent messages on Friday and Saturday which are unread and a message on Gmail.

You seem to use so many different places, it is hard to know where to contact you.

Gassho

[Kokuu]

Early autumn, a storm
cuts through the heat.
My body too, flares with inflammation
needing its own cooling rain.
Over the hedgerow, the sound of children
battling over a ball.
Seagull cry, blue sky,
Namu Kie Butsu.


Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Tai Shi]

Saga of the intertwined,

Charles and Marjorie

Greek, Persian, Hebrew, Irish, Latin
Pearl : Child of light; pearl; jewel
Greek : Pearl My wife vowed
Solemnly, Designed in wonder
真珠 -- Pearl in Scotland
She is timeless, Child of Light
Timeless Pearl, In Sacred use
One who is true, She
My wife, has taken her vows
As she says even today
Presented me quiet,

Now spoken even at age
Has she brings to us
Gifts to see to speak
Quietly serene and true
We both devoted
To each other in eternity
Free of Alcohol she vows
As me she taught me
We did vow to be each
To each, to have distinguished
Sound from my classmates.

Of Kings have Been called
Charles. Don't be fooled I am
Nothing special I have
My soft side, Not popular
I was named less than
One hundred, never
Popular, Pearl you
Took me mailable

Solemn vow is taken
An individual "free man"
Vow consisted in a promise
You offer a sacrifice, if would
Give some assistance
In a difficulty; deliberate
Free promise, we chose
Each to each other

Charles, distinguished
Sound from his classmates.
free man Charles from Germanic Ceorl,
Meaning "free man". The name
Has been popular throughout history
Kings have been called Charles.
Hunger for learning, working hard
At his goals while studying
With diligently.

With affirmation "pearl". It is a
Nobility Marjorie Asian Foo Dog
Known as the "Lion of Buddha"
Although you are not exactly
With Buddhism. In Japan,
Some use you Lion
You ward off evil spirits
Attract health and wealth.

I am free, woman you
Vowed, this promise you told me
Seriously as in Solemnity assurance
Will do particular thing particular
Things will happen. Together we
You are bravery in betrothal
Given my Mary of clear light
Your sister, my brother
Robert, Douglas "bright fame".
Fame someone is intelligent,
Intuitive, graceful, or psychic.
My brother witnesed

At our vow we chose becoming
Friends, forty-one years
Our wedding vows have
To hold through sickness
And health we have
Traveled we lived together
Have parented our daughter

Lived together, husband wife
Wife leads husband
You told me as married we
Took our vows seriously,
We gave each other Laurel
Ann, we love each other
We care most for friendship
This is the gift we gave
Our daughter each other
Poet Teacher Friendship
To each other in Each
Separate, together
Independence Livelihood,
We gave echo the other

Soft pearl of yoyality you
With Charles Marjorie,
One together, as we are three
You, me, each other, three
Spend together, we lived
As we found January
Seven, 1980, married
June 12, 1982, vows given
Freely after two one half years
Until we needed was
With friends you would be
My friends, family witnesses
Until we have become

Known through reading
Writing be with those we
See, most our being,
Study more books every
See that our writing
Learner, largely not harm
Not aggression, freedom we
Know is love of others, given
Worldly gifts to serve more
To our world who would gain
Health education and to be

Classroom office hospital,
Departments where those
Bought food and clothing,
Ours has always been service
To others, to our worlds

Always be what visible
We see, and sit as only
Reality, just sitting,
Just being, Justly honest
More from eternity
Guesed equality, we
Treat others with equality
Others invited to our
Home each time for food
Shelter, sustance, drink
Sworn off all alcohol
Of this we are happy


Gassho bowing
Witnessed.
just sat/ leant
A hand.



"what happened to all those firm promises of support?

[Onkai]

Thank you, Tai Shi.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

Onkai great to try,

Insult to Humanity
Great priest who is
Training, I have seen
The Great Wall of
China built for indigenous
People years ago in wisdom

Nothing but war? I’m
Decidedly happy
The Lasting Friendship
I never thought possible
Do you know possibility

Dear Leader Onkai, to
You have said that you
Recognize humility?
Free all Sentient beings
Never do as I said before
But do as I do, Onkai
Learn you will become

The priest you deserve
Dear know today I am
72, Celebrate as I
Have your priesthood
Observe support

Care for precepts be
Usually happy because
You grow in Buddhism
Strong woman build
Your self worth by
Giving what you already

Have within your observation
You are strong beyond your
Yeas let it happen again
Agreed that you need nothing
More than self worth to live

Especially when you’re in
Touch with yourself
There is no satori, do not look
Outside yourself today, thence
You can believe in yourself
I believe in you I don’t

Doubt it one bit you will see
Within, without is all the same.
I’m not going anywhere soon
I’m Ubasoku I support you
Believe in me and you are

Just as sure as me you
Know that precepts are for
Us all, don’t hesitate for
You are you, you are you.

I’m Ubasoku from day one
I have been for others
As well as myself is your
Accidentally not are you!
You are you.

Gassho
sat/lah


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[Tai Shi]

Onkai great try, no
Insult to Humanity
Great priest who is
Training, I have seen
The Great Wall of
China built for indigenous
People years ago in wisdom

Nothing but war? I’m
Decidedly happy
The Lasting Friendship
I never thought potential
Do you know possibility

Dear Leader Onkai, to
You I have said that you
Recognize humility
Free all Sentient beings
Never do as I said
But do as I do, Onkai
Learn you will become

The priest you deserve
Dear know today I am
72, Celebrate as I
Have your priesthood
Observe support

Care for precepts be
Usually happy because
You grow in Buddhism
Strong woman build
Your self worth by
Giving what you already

Have within your observation
You are strong beyond your
Years let it happen again
Agreed that you need nothing
More than self worth to live

Especially when you’re in
Touch with yourself
There is no satori do not look
Outside today and thence
You can believe in yourself
I believe in you I don’t
Doubt it one bit you will see
Within, without is all the same.

I’m not going anywhere soon
I’m Ubasoku I support you
Believe in me and you are
Just as sure as me you
Know that precepts are for
Us all, don’t hesitate for
You are you, you are you.

Gassho
sat/lah


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[Onkai]

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

The Second Day

What is there to say?
It is the second day,
With no addictive substance,
Not that I have ever been

High from the patches
I have worn going
One 10 years, sadness
To the wonder of precept
Which one is it?

The one about intoxication,
I was never high from numbing
Drugs, I have a disease,
Ankylosing Spondylitis,

I have come to loathe this name
Diagnosis when I was 40,
That Fall could not get
Out of bed easily,
Stuck, felt, I am 72 now,

Old in my spine,
This was my shadow down
For I knew I had
Slept hard

Crooked, twisted,
Into joint knots, what
To do? Not going

I made no page upon
My computer though
I accidently made
Without thinking--

About my pain, like
Graded at no wisdom
To sound like my own
Hacker, I was in pain,

Three days ago my
Last of pain required
Medication, today creaking
In neck, in chest, in spine

My back swaed to left.
This substance no!
Yet, I exercised
Actually feeling a bit,
No abuse, what is free?

Gassho sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Thank you Tree Leaf

You caused me to see
My worth for others, first
My best Zen Teacher
Marjorie, sent from
Some reality, seeking
All cannot be as Four

Vows say, in our own
Witness of another
Day, okay you cannot
See your birthright, your
Own wisdom inner self

Ubasoku, grandmotherly
To serve, I cannot be
Priest, because I am old
But could study, books
Would not be a problem

Don't you see, other Priest
Other reality, my Pearl would
Not for me taught me Humanity
Thy Humility, full circle
Be, I am free of Drugs
And alcohol, the Ethanol
36 Years, I am free

So doctor gave me, infirm
Drugs, said he sat six
Feet from Thich Nhat Hanh
It did him no good stole
My humanity

Tonight I rise above narcotics
I am free, As the Black spirituals
I am free, thank my own
Gods, along with zazen
Shikantaza, I have found

That freedom rises to reality
Of just sitting zazen into rest
Of Abraham and I am not
Child slaughtered, human
Sacrifice is gone banned from West
All can see rath in killing
Humanity, Jewish sacrament
Live and let live, this is the true
Statement for my freedom. i am.


Gasho
Deep bows to
To all trees
sat/lend a human
Hand to all humanity
Tai Shi
Peaceful poetry

[Tai Shi]

Returning to a Time

There was a time when
I was eighteen I too went
To Dachau later met Viktor
Frankl, experiments
Slats for beds no toilet

Wish now I had not
Seen life's biggest mystery
May sand cool like her
Pearl near sleeping
Death of People gone
Six million, there were more
eighteen million, then many more.

In the other bed, more
We in poverty, her
In Howard, me in Des
Moines, her South Dakota
Me in Iowa, we only had
Cheap mattresses, wanton

Poverty, circumvented
As couple we in love
Conceived daughter, after
Nearly in Poverty, yes
Above with our child

Our home, in Hartford
With looming white pine
tree, maples, elm, river
Birch, aspens to remind
Us of Colorado

Did we travel to paper
Mill, where I taught
Classes six hors and eight
Hours, fifteen hours then days
Like roller skate, missile
Towa, laughing at our novelty

Our Christmases we gave
To her, child hsad halloween
Where mom, my pear, my tree
Sewed Lion King costume
We laughed in spite
Of longing sways trying

To make homestead in Ill.
Not to be, because at four
AM I sat all night in attempt
To give students, grading
Something else, Literary
Magazine

I saved for art four am art's
Sake, they didn't remember me
See my work From reality forced
To give failing nephew with "F"a "D"
Me in "F" math 101, and later

Other students with same
Reality given no grade failure
Because registrar gave all
Students at Grinnell instant
Drop erased of "F" no grade below
"C" then for me "F" followed

Me throughout eternity I never
Left, they cheated me
For that semester of Kent
State. Don't you see what
Reality cheated of GPA
Honors you would not
Transfer, "As" and"Bs"
Academic snobbery.

Now I am Zen, Ubasoku
Grandmotherly I support
Don't take, withdrawal from
Alcohol, Oxycodone and Fentanyl
Already sober 36 years, more
I see the infidelity on humanity.

Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi
Peaceful poetry.

[Onki]

Onki. very nice--keep it up, bring us to your Shikantaza.
Tai Shi
Peace, calm poetry

Thanks Tai Shi [emoji846]

Gasshō,

On

Sat today

[Tai Shi]

Onki. very nice--keep it up, bring us to your Shikantaza.
Tai Shi
Peace, calm poetry

[Tai Shi]

Forgiving Mr Keating

May I forgive you
wishing in my memory,
That director accusing me
That in infirmity, in childish
had caried death up his divorce,
Dropped him made--he lashed
Out at me, nearly heat
Pierced, my eternity

Relinquished like heartwood
Of Douglas fir, hardest heart ever
Be In my spitaily taken, worked
Stealthily of manufactured doves
Reluctantly, bill collector made me
Smir my fear before my eighteenth year,
Year-- Seventy two now intoxicant of harsh,
Right eye blurred, now I to grovel at that

Memory, dispassionate, desperately.
As Loving Kindness enters me, wanton
Sifting through death unforeseen in brain
Surgery; oh, forgive the dead I cannot
Avoid; bones will sink below Buddha's
Cause effectively in heaven's reverie.

Gassho
Deep bows
sat/lah