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
The tree's been cut down and now the dawn breaks early
Through my small window. - Masaoka Shiki
Wild living creatures flutter cross eons, oceans,
Crossing county lines. - Kido Listenbee August 2019
Losing its name
A river enters the sea. - John Sandbach
Looking out to the vast scene:
The ocean cupping itself. - Vicki Reithel August 2019
SKY HAIKU GUIDELINES
· Submit two haiku per
month - no more.
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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.
