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

[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

[Tai Shi]

Mistake on under Tree

The usual joy escapes me
I am false, I am not free
Mistakes abound, mistakes
Do not glorify Gautama
Buddha, or Jesus Christ,
All is sorrow, mistakes
Do not glorify eternal "yes."
I have committed eternal "no."

Rapture of positive escapes me.
Nothing in my life lies obvious
Except that I mistakenly
Said somewhere he not is eternal,
She is eternal, "no." What could
Sketch, draw, or color into what

I have done? Where am I
In error? Thorough beginnings
Mouth, body, and mind?
In pain of sorrow, in speech,
Thought, or deed, now
I atone for them all! I
Grieve up, I feel all pain,

Am in all Error! Some place
Some time, Some way,
I have committed previous
Error of indecision, or dream
Wise act or never, I atone for
Speech thought or deed,
No where, no sand or earth
Water divides.

Atonement is all in perception
All in live action whether
In ignorance or knowledge
No written record can stand
In clay tablet, song, or written
Paper language. All is bleak, all
Woe, give over to Buddha,
Yes, too Christ. To sin,
Error,

I join under Bodhi Tree, Evening Star,
Morning earth and planet, Earth
In heaves figuratively,
Plainly, or obviously all
Is an attempt at forgiveness,
Ten thousand Buddhas
In, under, on Tree, under Wise

Buddha I withhold nothing, strong
Is my submission, my Desire,
No Greed is the average, give
Up possessiveness, all grasping.
Wonder individuality, note-
Worthy, wonder of creation
Offer atonement, offer sorrow.

Find again, of Jesús or
That above Wise wisdom, Buddha,
Christ. That which is God, not God
Which has no place in eternity,
This is the wonder of creation,
That not created, not formed?
That which is Created and Formed.

Gassho
sat/ lah

[L_Moore]

THE DHARMA IS MY ROCK

THE DHARMA IS MY ROCK -- A poem composed by Sensei Koyo Kubose, date unknown:

Many things are happening
In my life right now.
Underlying it all
The Dharma is my rock.

Beyond sorrow and joy
The Dharma is whispering
Everything is Okay,
Even when things are not going Okay.

Eyes full of tears
Heart heavy with pain,
Stone therapy helps me see
The suchness of all things.

Being embraced by the Dharma
I will live a life of Oneness
Where the universal and infinite
Touch the particular and finite.

Yes, I will struggle;
Yes, things may not turn out
Exactly the way I would like.

Yet, I will keep going with a smile
Because I know
The Dharma is my rock.

[L_Moore]

GOING HOME

Going home to where you've always been.
Pilgrimage? No.
Just a children's game of hide and seek.
No rules, no goals, just thus.

L_Moore, sat 7-15-2023.

[Nathan Noble]

When I was 26 I got Lyme disease. During my treatment for it I spent 54 Days very weak, and barely able to do anything.
A river runs along the North border of my property, and one of the few things I managed to do during this time was sit on the bank with my Cat. One day while doing this, I witnessed this...


-Calm Acceptance
I saw a Heron pluck a fish from the water.
It was so peacefully still. No splash, No sound, barely even a ripple. The fish didn't even struggle, just rode off in the herons grasp... It made me think that fish traded It's fate,for it's only chance to fly.

[Tai Shi]

Quantum Language

See and feel. Feel and think,
Forever sinking up down all-ways,
Link Quantum theory, my brain in Harvard
Hospital, research for demotions see
Directions infinite, solve brain tissue

Research for cellular antithesis, quantum leap,
Another dimension, after forethought poems
Reunited apps, apps denied smashing
Atoms of emotion, of peace, quantified,
In sector, numbers, intuition quantified.

Qualified poets understand intuition of predilection,
This rugged way is infinitely grave, apples of the sun,
Dimensions of free will, methods, sentient,
Distraction. Demonic mindfulness will split
The Atom, Electrons, smaller than eccentricities,

Tiniest particle in sums, photons, infinitely grave
Protection in human Elections, choice below
Above Truth found in races, two thirds of time,
Idiom of 4th dimension come to charge, amend
First in metaphors and parables, meteors,

Buddha, referendum of Christ, industry slippery
Allegory of dimensions built in supper colliders,
Computers of her life, reality communion opened
Loops in nucleus, come closer to collisions
In next relation to decades of ideas,

This phone built in fall filters Bell
To transmit Eve, creation myth from rib
Then Allegory of Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon,
Blind language first added to reactor, predilection,
Milton's poetry, this troubadour, this Dharma,

Of Christ's virtues, par excellence, able
Nero transmitter, for overflow of Homer solved
In dimensions of this universe, beauty
Then Truth, which beautifies, transmits all
All Poetry, then predictor, Iliad spitting

Atoms into electrons then, light Democracy
In Athens, fifty years. Socrates, radiation light
Platonic resonance beyond light, very of God,
God, unnatural universal fortunetellers,
Ultimately, rhetorical narration,

Penalties, tellers of future partivals blown
Apart into Proton story, spilling out light
God's spectroscopy in Paradise,
Fallen Angle's random essences, dialects,
English, Japanese, or Chinese, or Russian

Until English realizes space-time at once,
All traces executed into languages become story
Triad essences, died in time or space, in actions
Transcended mode thunders, discourse, central
Theory that all Language is artistic,

Socialist then becomes the 20th Century
Poetry is still this moment of the 21st Century,
Of transitive verb, emotive modality evolve,
Essence more elision, Liberal capped
Fashioned Sculpture of Sophia, Beethoven's

Wisest quartets in speechless demise,
Of what's left out of finding life
In each Brain cell, to repair mitochondria
Love, will transcend gold ingots from lead,
All illusions, languages unraveling to figure

String theory, thinner than fiber, O chum thesis
Oh human theory, only rain drop atop hill
In Tennessee when round we find all revolutionary
Mind another rotation, Reactor Not binary
Because poetry transits all words

Transmitted once, talking here then there
Unexpectedly, turning into Foucault propulsion,
Pendulum to Adam's razor, golden bough
Parceled out, Seen already two parables, more
Wise virgins split, oh, Buddha our mental

Creation in Equality. We find more cause
Effective answers to Quantum couplets
In all languages, evening words at play
The predictor of fusion, more story astray
Metaphor, gone wild, more trope,

Binary reactor, another partial
Wonder of creation, multi Dimensional
Drones in ovens of Metal Realizations.
Come Mishawaka Dues. Song breezes
Indigenous peoples, gone astray,
The White Men marveled agony.

Gassho
sat today
Tai Shi
Lent a hand