Why am I aging so this autumn?
A bird flying into the clouds. - Basho
The prisoner tends flamboyant orange sunflowers
in his assigned plot. - Anne Steel, October 2019
Reciting sutras is like frogs in the spring rice paddy
Croaking all day and night. - Dogen
The quarter moon is behind the maple tree;
Go outside and look again. - Do Ja Williams, October 2019
A flower falling
This self an unfortunate old self enrobing. - Basho
River wisdom flows; now pooling, again leaping
Sparkling to the sea. - Kido Listenbee, October 2019
Coming home at last at the end of the year
I wept to find my old umbilical cord. - Basho
Please don't ever think anything is out of place
Let loneliness be. - Anne Steel, September 2019
The lamp once out
Cool stars enter the window frame - Natsume Soseki
When the lap becomes one lap
You attend each other like the newly born - Vicki Reithel, September 2019
The thief left it behind
The moon at the window. - Ryoken
Sweet gum tree
Holds ten thousand stars awaiting frost - Do Ja Williams, September 2019
Oh snail, climb Mt. Fuji
But slowly, slowly - Issa
These trappings, while mere imitations,
May still remind us of his gifts. - Kido Listenbee, September 2019
SKY HAIKU GUIDELINES
· Submit two haiku per
month - no more.
o
Email
them to Kido kido@flestates.net
§ The first one should be
one of your favorites by a classic poet;
§ the second one - which
is optional - is your own original work.
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No
titles nor contextual material will be posted: the poem must speak for
itself.
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Each
pair of poems will stay up for the month of its submission and the following
month.
NOTES:
· All these requirements
help us practice a kind of zen discipline of economy and restraint, and help us
to appreciate the wisdom of impermanence.
· If you submit more than
one original per month, Kido will post the first one she reads.
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She
wants to be a conduit, not a curator.
Please
visit www.oxford-soto-zen.org several days after submission to see yours and
others' postings.
