ARTS: Poetry — What are you reading?

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo, for recommending a true translation of the poems of the first Buddhist women. The book I got has copious notes giving an idea of who each woman was, and the context of her verses. On the left page it has romanization of the Sanskrit. The poems are in a different order than the book I was reading before, so I can't compare them, but I find this translation to be lovely. The book is physically beautiful, too. I got a hardback copy. (The book is Therigata: Poems of the First Buddhist Women translated by Charles Hallisey)

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

A wonderful book, simply Zen Poetry, the story of a man's visiting a Renzi temple near Tokyo, miles from the nearest public transportation, of Renzi, and differences between Rezni, the other Zen Buddhism, a word branch like Treeleaf, Soto Zen, all for peace. Beautiful experience of Haiku, etc. This book is called simply; Zen Poetry, ed and intro, by Lucien Stryk. It includes poetry from Dogen, and many more ancient poets. Including many types of Japanese and Chinese Poetry. Excellent.
Gassho/peace
sat/lah.

[Tai Shi]

Reading; Living Nations, Living Words collected with an introduction by Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. POET Laureate, forward by Carla D Hayden, Librarian of Congress, a full experience of Native American Poetry. Some of the best and greatest voices in the Americas. WW Norton and CO. First Edition, and; a Year & other poems by Jos Charles, Milkweed editions C 2022; gifts from Laurel Ann Taylor, BA, MFA, PhD ABD.

Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

Classic Haiku, Edited and Illustrated by Tom Lowenstein, Photographs by John Cleare, Duncan Brand Publishers, London, 1988.

Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

Robert A Heinlein, Have Space Suit Will Travel, Time for the Stars, Mathusala's Children, Starman Jones. etc. etc., more books, by the same author, This man called the Dean of Science Fiction, the greatest science fiction writer of the 20th Century.
May we yet find in fiction of science the essence of hope and a loving world where there is only peace in every action moved to space and beyond.
Gassho sat/lah
Deep Bows.

[Onkai]

Robert A Heinlein, Have Space Suit Will Travel, Time for the Stars, Mathusala's Children, Starman Jones. etc. etc., more books, by the same author, This man called the Dean of Science Fiction, the greatest science fiction writer of the 20th Century.
May we yet find in fiction of science the essence of hope and a loving world where there is only peace in every action moved to space and beyond.
Gassho sat/lah
Deep Bows.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

I began this thread with the hope that some of us might share what we read of pride that we remain literate by sharing our interests in reading, and that all might help others know a little of these interests to hopefully provide a full and precious mind! I grow. Precious is using this most important organ of our body, a gift I nearly lost. Loosing one's mind to a tumor did not happen to me only because of a great friend, and because I am fortunate to have married a woman who provides me with medical care. Most of the world does not get the care I get. I have faced death in my life, as we all do, many times. With luck, I will be 72 on September 11th. I have learned, and I have tried to work at it my entire life. From Tootles, The Train to Great Books about my love of Poetry and language. May you find a place here to share your books, your love of learning. I continue to read books about my career of writing and teaching writing. Now I am reading The Poet's Companion that I might learn more of my craft. May you also learn something that is dear to you. This book is by two excellent poets, Kim Addonisio, and Dorianne Laux. I was a Wren, not a Robin or Bluebird, in reading ability. In second-grade, I was the worst. Furthermore, I am still a Wren, but I work at reading because I love words, and language, and stories, and poems, and a great deal more, so please list and share your books here. What are you reading now?
Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi (calm poetry)

[Onkai]

Sorry. I misunderstood which thread this was.

I'm reading "The Liberating Arts - Why We Need Liberal Arts Education." Edited by Jeffrey Bilbro, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and David Henreckson. Each section has an argument against the liberal arts and then three articles refuting and reframing the argument.

It is published by Plough Publishing House, a Christian organization, and some of it has a specifically Christian viewpoint, but it allows for viewpoints of other religious traditions. It's available on Amazon.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

It’s fine. Any post is good and you may write and share what you want.
Gassho
Tai Shi
sat/lah


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[Onkai]

It’s fine. Any post is good and you may write and share what you want.
Gassho
Tai Shi
sat/lah


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Thank you, Tai Shi.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah

[Tai Shi]

I went to a Liberal Arts college, Grinnell College in Iowa. BA in English literature and history, MA English and Ed.S. higher education, MFA creative writing. The degrees are more than adequate, More Daily Wisdom; 365 Buddhist Inspirations. Wisdom Publications, 2006. Apologies for any assumptions.

Gassho
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

I just wanted to make a little note. Now 11:16 pm and at 5:16 this morning I peeled off the last Fentynal patch. Up until today I did not know how to spell "Fentynal," but I got it right this morning. The first thing I did at 10:16 this morning I opened up my mind to A Little Treasury of British Poetry, books I bought when I was 15, and I read, read, read words, beautifully words, cascading down my mountain brook, watering my trees, filling my wells with sweet water at the end of Summer grass, Autumn wind, lake wind, mountain lake water rushing past my windows.I am free, like Yeats in his tower. "I pase on the battlements and stare." Straight talk eluded me when I was 15 and bought my first book of poetry. I know straight talk now when I hear it, when I hear it spoken. I will never trust implicitly any doctor again because when she says, "You are working on only one third of your kidneys!" 33% works, the other 66% is just there, so what does water have to do with that? What Auden knew, on Easter's end of World War One and 17 million had been senselessly slaughtered, in trenches, with mustard gas, with battlements of horses dead in their traces. What was to become of the human animal? Was slavery abolished by 1864? By no means, and girls are sold in their sleep, boys learn to weep, cry themselves to sleep, lose mothers and fathers in divorcees houses, let us all learn to wonder why we see nothing but open sky, what has become of the restless cloud of death...It is dying in the desert of Moses, and Issah, and Buddha, and Bodhidharma, so leave all to keep sacred the human body and the human mind opening on Peaceful Poetry to again learn what is important in the human heart and mind...A Little Treasure of Charles strong man poetry, Tai Shi poetry. He likes Tai Shi poetry best, he likes it best, it's best, best to remember happiness and freedom from chemical straight jackets, cry for ten years of attempted wonder, start and stop, start again at age seventy two, seven and two weight decades, looking back at six decades, and thirty six years of that seventy two years free from old wine, held by Martin Luther's ninety nine theses like Fire Sermons swollen with molten Buddhism no wonder drugs fifty times as potent as heroin reach the street at all, all reach the street and cry.

Last Thursday after one month of trying without Fentynal we my provider and I with the help of pain specialists, and several, Internal Medicine, Interventional Pain, Family Practice, and Geriatrics we have decided to keep a minimum patch one up from 12.5 the lowest, this and other means to control chronic pain, the Ankylosing Spondylitis is so advanced that patch every three days is at minimum necessary for me I am disappointed except to say that the dose is in no way intoxicating so adheres to the Precepts. Now for my dear friend who has suffered a stroke, Kyosui who saved my life has worked all his life as an RN, Ast Science, BA psychiatry nurse, I dedicate the series Rama, seventh Hindu God, Vishnu, disembodied one, those who would join me to read one or more of these books by Arthur C Clarke, scientist, writer. My friend loves Science Fiction and he has saved my life, and I cannot travel, I am 72 no longer drive, my wife is partly blind, she cannot drive me to my friend, and we may one day find a way to visit my brother 300+ miles away in Des Moines, Iowa who is finding about a cancer, Kyousui is my mittre or double, my other "brother in Buddhism," who would sit Zazen, Shikantaza with me at Shokai, 6:00 am at Treeleaf Zendo as a group on Zoom, once or twice as many times as you are able, you define this Ango activity, I invite you or anyone.
Gassho
sat/lah
Tai Shi
10/11/2023/ 7:32 am.

[Tai Shi]

My dear Mittre, double friend in Buddhism who sent me to ER, saved my life, and he now has a stroke and needs all of us, and who also suffers cancer, and is becoming dependent on family I would as many as can sit zazen with Shokai, 6:05 Central Time USA, sit Treeleaf schedueled time, for Kyousui who has had this situation who is two years my senior, and we have nearly everyday called and chatted and cared for each other, read one or more of the Rama Series for my friend who loves Sci Fi, and this about a long gone race of space people, as from Earth Extraterrestrials, and superior to give humanity. This I dedicate for my own Ango and any partner in 2023 fall, come along with me in dedication to Kysoui a nurse RN/ BA, Morningside College an excellent college, all his life my dear friend, join me in celebrating his life. This is my Ango for all to join in Sci Fi, his great love in fiction, this we do for him and it is easiest for us to do this simple set of ideas and behaviors for him Arthur C Clarke, scientist, writer, read from Rama series the Vishnu God of second primary In India, so find the Relationship to Buddhism!
sat/lah
Gassho
Deep. Deep. Bows
Tai Shi

[Tai Shi]

My dear Mittre, double friend in Buddhism who sent me to ER, saved my life, and he now has a stroke and needs all of us, and who also suffers cancer, and is becoming dependent on family I would as many as can sit zazen with Shokai, 6:05 Central Time USA, sit Treeleaf schedueled time, for Kyousui who has had this situation who is two years my senior, and we have nearly everyday called and chatted and cared for each other, read one or more of the Rama Series for my friend who loves Sci Fi, and this about a long gone race of space people, as from Earth Extraterrestrials, and superior to give humanity this second chance. This I dedicate for my own Ango and any partner in 2023 fall, come along with me in dedication to Kysoui a nurse RN all his life my dear friend, join me in celebrating his life.
sat/lah
Gassho
Deep. Deep. Bows
Tai Shi

[Onkai]

Thank you for sharing, Tai Shi. I also wish the best for Kyousui and dedicate my practice to him. I've downloaded "Rendezvous with Rama." I have a lot on my reading list, but would like to read the series with you and anyone else who would like to join.

Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah