May 2007
85 posts
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Turn in the dirt road
A strange dog in his strong stance.
Will we fight, sniff, run?
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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On Wumenguan - koan 4
Bodhidharma’s beard
Black ink on white rice paper
The bristles still itch
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Loving old priceless things, I”ve scorned those seeking Truth outside themselves: Here, on the tip of the nose.
— Layman Makusho
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The lure snagged at once
Then wading in the shallows
A huge bass glimmered
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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On Wumenguan - koan 3
Pointless finger stub
Draws Tianlong’s Zen full circle
Inexhaustible
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Farmer, pointing the way with a raddish.
— Issa
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On Wumenguan - koan 2
Fox on the mountain
Ran blind for 500 years
Someone should slap him
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Slaps seem easy but
Ignoring causality
Will still keep him blind
- Old friend’s response
- Or as Taigi (1709-72) put it in haiku:
In the mellon-patch thief, fox meet head-on.
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On Wumenguan - koan 1
A Buddha nature
Real moon in a paper sky
Does a man have one?
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Earth, mountains, rivers — hidden in this nothingness. In this nothingness — earth, mountains, rivers revealed. Spring flowers, winter snows: There’s no being nor non-being, nor denial itself.
— Saisho (?-1506)
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On Wumenguan - koan 16
A fomal vestment
Donned with spontaneity
Contains the wide world.
- On receiving the Wumenguan from an old friend
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The sound of your bell echoes
Spontaneity.
- The old friend’s response
- Issa (1763-1827) said:
One bath after another — how stupid.
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Heading Home from DC Trip
Leaving my daughters
Each will trod her separate path
Dark night, shooting stars
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“Just breathe, we’re okay.”
On flunking the interview of
Michael Sikorsky
- quote from “The Raw Shark Texts” by Steven Hall (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Caribou Coffee
Harley ate my brand ball cap
Now they’re just on-line
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Confused my children
Left a disc of vintage porn
In my DAUGHTER’s book
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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DC Bike Trip 1/2 Way
On the Interstate
People going nowhere fast
It’s all the same
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“No one goes down it
Basho wrote of Autumn roads.
Not Spring Interstates
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Watching people’s dogs
1st rest stop in VA
Mine won’t ride with me
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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At a rest stop break
Snacking & reading Basho
Ants get into it too
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Organic creature
Warm pool of thoughts & feelings
Flung into hard-edged space
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Cross this spinning globe
Round wheels roll @ 65
Lean into the wind!
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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DC Bike Trip Begins
Road off this morning
Bike and pack prepared
Now the fates decide
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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A few of these are poems Fewer still of those: haiku None are recursive (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Sharp turn at high speed Death grins from handlebar perch Keen edge pearcing joy (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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In the dark of night The black cat stalked to visit Far end of long pier (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Rolled in shit & fish:
Harley’s way to celebrate
Freedom from heartworms
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Four companions:
Cat, tea, book, sharp pain in spine
Sit here this morning.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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They may preserve or they may lose. I marvel at them. I praise these who go out...
– Sophocles - Fragment about sailors written in margins of papyrus manuscript, translated by Reginald Gibbons, Poetry March 2007
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Oh what greater happiness could you have than this: After reaching land to lie...
– Sophocles - Fragment about sailors written in margins of papyrus manuscript, translated by Reginald Gibbons, Poetry March 2007
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Harley’s great dog heart
No heart worms chew its pumping
His vet phones at dawn
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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All of poetry
In Basho Buson Issa
Seeker Artist Man
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
had an out-of-brain experience this morning. very cool. now if i can just...
– dlangendorf
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Whoa, sacredThinIce? {amen.}] [+/&/-] Rev: Those who mongerFear, are fearFull. “What would it take to be spiritFull.” <—checklimitDef+- &
renice
visting family… dogs & burgers on the grill… is there anything...
– akamac
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Ubuntu Gentoo
MEPIS Solaris Knopix
Red Hat and the rest
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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How many Linux
Does is take to change one box
AMD64?
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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With vivid dogs mind
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Through your nose in the swift wind
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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To taste the whole world (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Birds cry, insects sing
No other sound but someone
Whistling in deep woods
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Warm Spring afternoon
So still that leaves slitely move
Thunder in the distance
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
Someone in a nearby room was listening to some pretty cool jazz piano. Wish...
– EternalCow
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Tis impossible To stay mad for long at a Cat on your tummy! (by fling93 from twitter.com)
kitten does not like the street sweeper… and yet he likes to eat needles....
– cliffcheney
Making this cocktail/ Is pure alchemy. Anise/ Fire on a bar top. (by Promethia fom twitter.com)
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Woke up this mornin’
I was feelin’ mighty bad:
Carolina blues
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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To sit with a dog
Quietly watch the great sky and
Breathe your deepest breath
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Blueheron: Interface dancing: How do you do it through pain? Like biting a pipe.
Renice: tuneBodyInToBeat searchoutPain, relaxPoint --> Celebrate --> searchoutPain --> relaxPoint --> focusonLeftSide(nopain) asmodel... openChannelsMultiD
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Feebly shuffling punctuation I’ve tried to mimic the devine disorder like...
– Blue Heron (For renice via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Interface dancing:
How do you do it through pain?
Like biting a pipe.
(for renice via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Looking for trouble
“In the room the women come…”
Fucking a duck
(Not much to do w/ T.S. Elliott via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Flowers fragrance birds (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Spring sings her welcomeing song (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Wherever you look (via Twitter / John Hicks)