Poetry
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(Gatha of Xuedou, Blue Cliff Records) Unevenness, non fixing…
Compiled by Zen Master Yuanwu Keqin (Engo Kokugon, 1063-1135) One, seven, three, five.The truth you search for cannot be grasped.As night advances, a bright moon illuminates the whole ocean;The dragon’s […]
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Hovering on above Caithness (Northern Scotland – Orkney)
arctic skuas, guillemots and black backs, probing – swaying – with low and high motion intersplicing retrieving coordinates – rangag, ruard glas mheall liath, coir a’ghiubhsachain skaill, point of hellia […]
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Becoming transparent, movement underfoot (Northern Scotland – Orkney)
texture of a rockface perhaps, all golden, scratched fissures – present and distant becoming transparent borrowed scenery fading now movement underfoot – methods and signals, all interweaving
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Shimmering Spectrum
spaces and timelines opening wide deep cobalts and emeralds rocky textures thrown through shimmering the movement of experiences through a pulsating spectrum up into stratospheres and oceans limitless
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Remembering the Tohoku Earthquake
All about light silver and cereleum spaces – from the distant spring cumulus two buzzards appear as dots, gently soaring boundlessly circling
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Two haiku poems
Fallen Leaves with a rustling sound fallen leaves pursue and pass others on the ground Tatsuko The Scarecrow in the setting sun the scarecrow’s shadow leans out to the road […]
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Autumnal haiku poems
Autumn-Twilight The hills cast shadows, And pampas grass is swaying In sunlit meadows. Buson Autumn Moon Is there anyone Who will not take up his brush With this moon tonight! […]
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Drawing, poetry and camping at mountain altitude
MOUNTAIN SPECTRE WHITE WING BLACK CAIRN Loafing around up on the Cairngorm plateau Has many advantages – You can loiter in peace with the deep blue sky, Surrounded by tiny […]
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Working on Tenzo Zen Cooking Notes…
In the last couple of weeks, with the kitchen work still fresh in my mind since being up at Ardfern with the Zen Group, I started getting some notes jotted […]