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

[Onki]

Coming Home

Sitting in silence
The air cool on my skin
Sandalwood permeating
Itchy robes, freshly shaved head
10,000 myriad things
Sensing the breath, the heartbeat
Birds chirping, Sun shining
Fear and anxiety fade away
I am left with Emptiness…

I am Home.

Gasshō,

On

Sat today

[Tai Shi]

The Poetry Thieves Grab

We begin to understand
Love, we together inter-
Are, we are alone for 41
Years Together with song,
We live in poetry out

To play in each other's arms
We are old, you 68, me 72
0n the way years add
Oh, my body's worn
Bones bent, but you care,

My Spine hurts never pain
One in time without arthritis
My life advises
That I may ask soon to be
Of death relieved--

Mornings, where I sit hosting
Zazen, when I find others
More suited to be led
Shy away to such

Which in houses
Blunder, they relive
My reality, that life
Of human beings end.
Let's be practical that way

We know for certain death
Comes sudden or lately
Withers my body, lights afire death
I am ancient. Ask me to forgive.

If I am lumber, I cannot insulate
From concrete; if I lay,
Board feet to what end?
Of construction carefully

Earth, fall of body into dirt
CO2, Oh water, clouds, mixing
Becoming alter, each of each
Child gone, Daughter begins to live

Trees wrapped, we believe
Hope of lightning, strike
Newly my gift, end is just,
I Rise trampled mind,

Meaning only in verses.
I guard jealously,
Maybe trees don't know,
Death without commitment,

Not the 1/20th size
Redwood which we see
Maker of smaller poisoned images
Irreplaceably bought one book

Billions die for kindled books
My poetry stands in libraries
Immortal, yet slices of wood.
Hundreds of yards into air,

Decapitated, such beauty
Only in flames, lost oxygen
I cannot breathe. my volumes
Could be stolen, my fame is
Thoughts not beatified,

Alloy melted down, decapitated
Drought, suffocation, mighty
In furnace, first kill my thoughts,
Rather than with my copyright

Grabbed, grotesque reversed not pacific.
Rather I deify my immortal lines.

Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

Her Name Means

What is Created Gemstone,
Pearl, mother of pearl,
Her name is Marjorie,

With sight limited to one
Eye, and refreshed
Near sights to two cm,

Over the rim of her glasses
I see beautiful blue, or she
Recognizes friends brown

Eyes, she gives always
Like multicolored sand
Stone she is friend, Zen
Teacher; Gace, reality!

Gassho
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Mist, When She Sleeps

White mist on my front lawn
My love sleeps, best of all
Zazen, she teaches me to sing
I mitigate more of mind now
When I read The Empty Field

There is more of Cultivation
In my thinking, more the ring
Out each morning, zazen
Shikantaza goal no goal. Mist.
I sing, morning rings.

Gassho
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Bow With Gentle Sitting Practice 舎利弗

I bow, listen intently and bow is bowing.
Sometimes, always attitude of sitting directed.
Find myself in quiet attitude of sitting. Shari, eyes
Are gentle, I find my space in my space only. Pieces
Of Wisdom, Some sit in Lotus Sitting position. Shariputra,
To One, some sit in half Lotus Sitting position. Son of Shari
Some sit Burmese position sitting. Shari's son, disciple,
Some sit in straight chair Tall Mountain in land of water.
Some sit cross legged Position of land or earth or star.

We sit as did the Wise One, then Sariputra, form not form,
We sit as do our teachers in wisdom, taught with others.
I have learned to be gentle, have become more honest, eight
Fold our hands , have found honesty leads as I sit, sitting, sitting
Less alone with less anger, to practicing the Precepts in ourselves.
I have practiced as I have time or less time, space less space.
Time is still, wise is still, five, ten, thirty minutes, any time.
You may practice for your reasons, your own reason peacefully,
To imitate to good to learn good, to imitate to learn gentle Mind.

To learn I read, I come to understand how to open my thinking, Wise
Uchiyama, Suzuki, Dogen, Monastery, Jundo, Purity, others quiet, next,
Practiced Bus /depot, Bus, Dr. Waiting Room, hospital bed, One Wise,
Any place not quite, quiet with time, my instead this time, lose time,
Place I need may not be quiet, need become place of focus, I breathe.
Breathing begins with hands in Ancient Mudra, Cosmic heart of Mudra.
No practice, practice Mudra, Cosmic Mudra, hands quiet Peacefully.
Smile with Peaceful Poetry, you may find your own quietude.
How do I sit quietly, how do I? I Practice with open thought, open
Process, the open flow, the river, said not to push the River,

We Cross the River with the Wisdom, do not push, do not cross, tcross,
Then gently moving down or up or side to side, highway of breathing,
What happens as I look ahead, notice scenery on either side,
Peace descends like a cloud, like gentle dew, like soft rain.
Peace in any one, any place is Peacefully without, with not holding,
Non-Grappling nor pulling, nor after form and substance, nothing
Non-seeking, hands still with gentle mind and thought,
Still look in my eyes slit for light, looking not looking, brown
rice, Eyes still under, not fully down, fully awake, let go openly.
My angle of vision which does not exactly look, looking,
Seeing exactly, I see not, we sit still mind like Poetry.

Gassho
Deep bows
sat/ lah
Gently words open
To see
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

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

A Grateful Invitation.

We Sit daily 8:00 a.m. M.Tu.We.Th.F.
There are many opportunities to sit Zazen Shikantaza.
At Treeleaf Zendo we have a schedule of times.
The schedule has a direct link taking you to free Zoom Room.
I have practiced daily for years; there are many opportunities here at Treeleaf Zendo.
If you want more information post here of in poetry.
I have truly benefited from practicing daily Zazen.
You need not practice daily to practice with us.
Speak to me PM if you have private questions.
Speak to Jundo also, with questions about extended time, or many others.
Speak to any priest about sitting times, and sitting practice.
Speak to us listed on Schedule if you have questions personal message, PM.
I personally have practiced many years, but you need not, nor do you need to practice everyday.

Gassho
Deep bows
sat/lah
Tai Shi
Peaceful calm poetry

[Tai Shi]

We Completed Zazen Shikantaza.
8:00 a.m. Central
All are invited.
Tai Shi
Speak to me if you would like more information.
Gassho
Deep bows
sat/lah

[Jundo]

Lovely, TS.

Gassho, Jundo

satTodaylah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Tai Shi. You are living up to your name, Tai Shi, Calm Poetry, and your title, Obasoku. I'm honored.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

ヰリアム, William, 威里亜夢
Bill, Bilion, 十億, 請求 · 請求先., Bill ビル
Mary, メアリ, メアリー or マリー, or 真理
Michael, マイケル , まいける

[Tai Shi]

O I Say It

Remember Onkai,
Kokuu, Kyousui,
These Japanese
Names where do
My friends come
From, which state,
One is from South
Carolina, there is
The other from
Canterbury, England,
My best friend, from
Iowa, he is in Erasing
Eats Ice cream, he
Sings today, saved
My life, she shaved
Her head, I mistook
Her for thirty-four,
And the best, Kokuu
Spring Grain,
Grain Rains,
The beginning of spring
Various cereals
Grown at the Time
He is Empty Space, or
Empty Sky,
I mistook for
Empty face. He has
No empty face
I can see his kind
Face peering out
To say be careful
Be Peaceful Poetry
Kokuu be careful
Be kind to yourself,
Then there is Kyousui
Calm Water, calm
He is my dear friend
I often see he is
His lady friend, not
Calm, flagellates
Himself with ice cream
I love these people,
Onkai action gray
Raven, she is so good,
Collapse in lightness
Honkai, hack
Slash, how could
She is Chinese
Translated, I know
She is a gray raven
Fly woman, I thought
You 34 like my daughter,
Oh Kyousui, black bird
Fluid motion, my dear
Friend did you know
You saved my life because
You said, "Get to ER,"
You spoke in fluid
Motion, black bird
You are in motion,
You run away from
I, and say this, more
One's poetry, Onkai
Honkai, black bird
Gray Raven sit in
Our wish, you gave
Me what I've become
Morning chant, Robe

Verse, we all look
Toward Empty Sky
Realize you belong
There you sit Priest
Refine Empty Space,
You are beginning
Of Spring cereal,
Spring Rain, how did we get
Introduced to Spring,
Gray Raven is the woman
She tells me not 34
But in her 50s she
Will be a priest, ordained
Soon enough she is shy
He is Strong Water, he is
Fluid motion, strength
Worked his whole life
As nursing people
Spoke softly he was
Psychiatric nurse, now
He needs me, I am
The psychiatric friend
Who has bipolar
One, he gives me my
Ability to give him songs,
Something he cannot find
Except yesterday, I wonder
If he found one woman
To all listen to him
I am the poet who puts them
Together, strong fluid motion,
Watering, beginning
Of spring, he is our
Food our cereal, our grain,
Feeds us when he is watered
What does she do
Impact, collapse
Or decay, I perfect
She is A Gray Raven
Sitting upon the light
Ray of the Cereal leaf
I am the Peaceful
Poetry who puts them together
Because I am Ubasoku,
I am gentle expression
I am their poetry.
Jundo, purity
Spoke to us teacher
Be pure not our
Stranger

April 20th we arrive,
Yousuf cricket coach
In Arabic, how could I
Call you Coach because
You are strong waters,
Plural Fluid, many
Waters which strengthen
My mind when you found
My brain again in the size
Of a walnut, floating
In Meninges or below,
What you found is poetry
Spring Rain, cereal grain
Says he will sit
Metta for all of us
Two of us are priests
I am calm poetry, Peaceful
Poetry, Purity Jundo
Meaning Purity of Substance
Named all three of us
Two Birds, one poem
One strong expression
The beginning of Spring
April 20th he is the real
Priest, and gives himself
In strong Space, in Strength.
Kokuu, Kyousui Onkai.
Purity, Purify us,
Leave me as Peaceful
Poetry. Water Leave
Me as words.
純度
崩壊
東極 京水
大, 志
穀雨こくう
ビル


Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

Why Poems Sing

Poems sing to light
In heart health, low,
Then high, then note
Of high C surrounded,
With vibration rebound
Green human being,
Green man, woman
With sight in summer,
In wise white exit,
This giving over
The reality is boundless
To Preserve chair
Of Shikantaza, when
One may let us light
Eternal wise, low
Because we know
Place of sight, misery
Gone forever more.

Gassho
Deep Bows
Wonder everlasting
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

The Robe Verse Beyond

Oh summer, full green
Laughing Turtle Creek
Heart healthy, friendly
Division gone today,
We sit in calm acceptance,
Light of morning song
People of my light this
Day, this hour, this
Resolve to be acceptance,
This full Surrender, this
Ever being sight, this
Soaring spirit more
Less, is more, of grace
Everlasting In Buddha
In Loving One Another
In Loving Kindness
Ever in my singing
Sight, resolve to be
To know, to be more.

Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

Peerless Price

Full autumn
Of great growing
Cathedral
Celebrating life,
Sit in wonder
Of universe.
Sailing peering.
Night just ahead.
What great Being?
Zazen my giving
Warm black nights.
White cloud
I perceive day
Of great sunny
Spring in my
Eternity, great
Being answers
Every retreat,
Every future my
More emptiness.
I live eternal
In my thirty
Minutes, I walk-in ten.
More is less, less
Is more. I know this now!

Gassho
satTai Shi
sat / lah
Ha, ha!!!
Lah


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Zazen represents
No great being but
Sitting practice
Which is
Not exclusive to God
Or anything resembling
Higher Power and reaching
I’m aware but I do practice
Zazen and sit regularly
With others on Treeleaf
Zendo in mind that I
Would create nothing
Being in Nothingness
We see only blanks and
I’m not trying to make
This remark but I don’t
Use my maple leaf in front
Yard beauty supply store
Of creative use of the word
I’m using vocabulary in my
Head including realizing
My own decisions were
Adorable but my life
Is ordinary now and everyone
Can see it now is for my
Reality and no one will see
My personal feelings in my
One [emoji3516][emoji3516] which is peacefully
Actually being peaceful
As I said I am not revealing
My life except for artistic
Ready for rebalance my
Mind is properly functioning
I think it was just misunderstood and really
Most people would understand.


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[Onkai]

Thank you for this beautiful poem, Tai Shi, but go easy on yourself just the same.

Gassho, Onkai