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

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  • Onkai
    Treeleaf Unsui
    • Aug 2015
    • 3022

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

    Gassho, Onkai
    美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
    恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

    I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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    • Tai Shi
      Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 3415

      Originally posted by 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


      Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
      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.


      Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
      Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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      • Tai Shi
        Member
        • Oct 2014
        • 3415

        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
        Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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        • Tai Shi
          Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 3415

          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
          Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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          • Tai Shi
            Member
            • Oct 2014
            • 3415

            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
            Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-22-2023, 01:22 PM. Reason: Friends
            Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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            • Tai Shi
              Member
              • Oct 2014
              • 3415

              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
              Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-22-2023, 11:59 AM. Reason: Professors
              Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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              • Onkai
                Treeleaf Unsui
                • Aug 2015
                • 3022

                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
                美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
                恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

                I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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                • Jundo
                  Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 40325

                  Lovely, TS.

                  Gassho, Jundo

                  satTodaylah
                  ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                  • Tai Shi
                    Member
                    • Oct 2014
                    • 3415

                    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
                    Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                    • Tai Shi
                      Member
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 3415

                      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
                      Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-07-2023, 08:10 AM. Reason: A Grateful Invitation.
                      Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                      • Tai Shi
                        Member
                        • Oct 2014
                        • 3415

                        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
                        Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-22-2023, 01:25 PM. Reason: stanzas
                        Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                        • Tai Shi
                          Member
                          • Oct 2014
                          • 3415

                          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
                          Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-21-2023, 01:57 PM. Reason: Stanza
                          Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                          • Tai Shi
                            Member
                            • Oct 2014
                            • 3415

                            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
                            Last edited by Tai Shi; 08-22-2023, 01:19 PM. Reason: edit, conscision
                            Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                            • Tai Shi
                              Member
                              • Oct 2014
                              • 3415

                              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
                              Last edited by Tai Shi; 09-05-2023, 02:49 PM. Reason: full revision
                              Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                              • Onki
                                Treeleaf Unsui
                                • Dec 2020
                                • 831

                                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
                                “Let me respectfully remind you
                                Life and death are of supreme importance.
                                Time swiftly passes by
                                And opportunity ist lost.
                                Each of us should strive to awaken.
                                Awaken, take heed,
                                Do not squander your life.​“ - Life and Death and The Great Matter

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