Ango 2015 Poetry

[Jishin]

[Jakuden]

Thrushes are silent
Hummingbird wings hum elsewhere
A raucous jay screams

[Sven]

Just posted Ango poem
"NOLA Zazen"
over on my blog
seemed too many words
for this thread

http://svendavisson.com

Gassho,
sven

Edite: posted below

[Kokuu]

Not at all, Sven. Just because most of the poems have been short doesn't mean that longer ones aren't very welcome!

Gassho
Kokuu
#sattoday

[Sven]

NOLA Zazen

The Zendo near our house in Maine
the sound of the han echoes off trees and hill
and large rock where Gato-Roshi’s ashes lie.

The songs of birds chattering and trilling to each other
the mournful coo-ah coo of a pair of doves
and the cutting craw of a crow
the lone doe siding her way silently
through the remnants of harvest
the resonant tonal croak of a bull frog in the pond
the strike of an early rising carpenter’s hammer.

Here, the morning framed
by the warning of heavy equipment backing up
the rhythm of a train behind the house
broken by the sharp sound of poorly lubricated iron
wheels’ screech on rail as it makes the turn
edging by the decommissioned naval station
the backhoe digging through gravel and river silt
repairing the gas lines beneath the street
the occasional siren from the substation
at the end of the next block
workers’ voices raised over the noise of machines
five horns of a tug in the canal
and the answering clanging bell
as the drawbridge goes up
a car with bad muffler and loose belt waiting.

Behind the sound of rock on steal,
the sounds of two birds singing
a dog barks
another answers
a feral rooster crows WAKE UP

New Orleans 10.6.15

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Rusty Rainbow, Crescent Park, the Bywater, New Orleans

[Kokuu]

Breathing through pain
the whole world is covered
with falling leaves.


Gassho
Kokuu
#sattoday

[Byokan]

I didn't realize
I'd be sewing cat hair
into the Rakusu

[Kokuu]

Cat hair and blood
weaves into the rakusu
with all of life.

[Byokan]

- - - Sewing - - -
(a-poem-from-a-non-poet-who-also-does-not-sew)


Measuring carefully the spaces in between.
From this line, 3.5, and now 2.5, now 1.
Like one ring of the bell to the next...
One beat of the heart to the next,
One inbreath to one outbreath,
And one stitch to the next:
- - - - - Namu kie butsu
- - - Namu kie butsu
- Namu kie butsu
Look closely
no-space
just
-

[Jakuden]

Wow, Lisa I would say you are both a poet and a seamstress!! That is really beautiful! Thank you.

P.S. I also am sewing cat hair into my Rakusu, and it seems to have inspired some thoughts the past few days, I hope you don't mind if eventually they work their way out into a poem borrowing off your idea.

Gassho,
Sierra
SatToday

[Byokan]

Wow, Lisa I would say you are both a poet and a seamstress!! That is really beautiful! Thank you.

P.S. I also am sewing cat hair into my Rakusu, and it seems to have inspired some thoughts the past few days, I hope you don't mind if eventually they work their way out into a poem borrowing off your idea.

Gassho,
Sierra
SatToday

Aw, thanks Sierra, I know my poetry is pretty weak, but no one can say it isn't triangular.
Plenty of cat hair to go around, pick up a handful and a pen!

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[Sekishi]

It was. It is. It will be.
I want. I do not want.
This small mind cuts and cuts,
But glimpse it for a moment and all is forgiven.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

[Kokuu]

Watching leaves fall
I too may not see
another spring.

[Hoseki]

Watching leaves fall
I too may not see
another spring.

Very moving.

Gassho
Adam
Sat today


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[Risho]

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

- John Lennon Roshi - from Watching the Wheels

What a talented person!

Gassho,

Risho
-sattoday