He who appears before you now
Is the Toad of this Thicket - Issa
A car crashes. A friend dies.
Sangha silence - Kuya Minogue, December 2019
For that brief moment when the fire-fly went out
O the lonely darkness - Hokushi
First sleet of winter
Jingles hitting the red maple tree blocks out
the wail of sirens - Do Ja Williams, December 2019
When I think, "MY snow!"
Snow flakes weigh nearly nothing on my wooly hat - Kikaku
This banana bread - always the same recipe
Yet tastes different - Kido Listenbee, December, 2019
In the sun of a cold winter day
My shadow had frozen stiff on horseback - Basho
Awareness wakens and gratitude swells
From the blow of compassion - Anne Steel, November 2019
Oh that harvest moon!
It made me go wandering
All night long. - Basho
The road gets rougher
As clouds part and the air melts
Into Mis'sippi. - Kido Listenbee, November 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.
o
No
titles nor contextual material will be posted: the poem must speak for
itself.
o
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.
o
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.
