Dear all
I have recently acquired a copy of Temple Dusk, a book of haiku from 1992 by Mitsu Suzuki.
Mitsu Suzuki was a notable haiku poet and tea teacher. Her husband was the Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, founder of San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Center. After Suzuki Roshi died in 1971, Mitsu continued to live at SFZC before returning to Japan in 1993 and leaving the visible world in January 2015 at the age of 101: http://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2016/01/0...away-aged-101/
Reading her work, it has a beautiful simplicity that I would like to achieve myself.
Too small
to call it a Zen garden
moss blossoms
Journey at dusk
yellow bamboo
the entire mountain
Intently sewing patched robes
an old nun
fringed iris
Dialogue of bells
entering into winter
dokusan
On my husband's ash urn
I hang his rakusu
winter's first rain
(this one gets me every time)
In addition to Temple Dusk, another book of her poetry was released to mark her one hundredth birthday, A White Tea Bowl.
One of my haiku teachers gave Temple Dusk two stars on Goodreads. Maybe there was too much Zen for him as the poems are undoubtedly beautiful and go beyond mere words.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
I have recently acquired a copy of Temple Dusk, a book of haiku from 1992 by Mitsu Suzuki.
Mitsu Suzuki was a notable haiku poet and tea teacher. Her husband was the Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, founder of San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Center. After Suzuki Roshi died in 1971, Mitsu continued to live at SFZC before returning to Japan in 1993 and leaving the visible world in January 2015 at the age of 101: http://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2016/01/0...away-aged-101/
Reading her work, it has a beautiful simplicity that I would like to achieve myself.
Too small
to call it a Zen garden
moss blossoms
Journey at dusk
yellow bamboo
the entire mountain
Intently sewing patched robes
an old nun
fringed iris
Dialogue of bells
entering into winter
dokusan
On my husband's ash urn
I hang his rakusu
winter's first rain
(this one gets me every time)
In addition to Temple Dusk, another book of her poetry was released to mark her one hundredth birthday, A White Tea Bowl.
One of my haiku teachers gave Temple Dusk two stars on Goodreads. Maybe there was too much Zen for him as the poems are undoubtedly beautiful and go beyond mere words.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
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