Tis open link night at dVerse tonight with Grace hosting. Photography is mine.
Hi everyone! Welcome to our OpenLinkNight ! This is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice as this is no prompt-day. For those who missed the Mr Linky deadline the past week or this Tuesday’s poetics about the “suburb” poem, this is also your opportunity to share your poem. I also want to remind you that our Haibun Monday is still open the whole week.
a series of Haiku tonight from me…in search of Zen.
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sound of one hand claps
winter preceding springtime
i am not writing
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winter ice will melt
there is nothing else to know
permanence is not
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tall wheat harvested
the cycle of birth and death
no start and no end
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in searching for Zen
one must learn how not to look
then one will arrive
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Very much enjoyed all of them–spot on.
Thank You for dropping by to say so.
A lovely haiku series Paul, there is Zen in all of them ☺
Thank You Zenia. I’m trying to Grasp the ungrasp-able again 😉
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These are lovely, Paul.
Thank You Angela
Nice, I specially like the life and death cycle ~ I started haiku writing with my FB friends lately and its fun to do it ~ Enjoy your weekend ~
Haiku is a beautiful form.
Will admit, haikus aren’t my style, having bad memories of poetry be forced, upon me, with iron force, that turn me off of poetry, for many years, until March 30, 2007, when I wrote my first poem, since June 1990, after graduating, from high school. And yet, find myself, liking your flair with words.
I appreciate your visit. Thanks.
winter ice will melt
there is nothing else to know…. love that!
Glad there is resonance there.
The secret of finding is not to look. ..sometimes. ..but at other times, seek and ye shall find!
There is nothing to seek. I also think that the line you quote from Matthew is alluding to prayer as opposed to actually ‘seeking’ and interestingly Jesus notes that even prayer is not required in Matthew 6:8….”for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him”
For me the essence of Zen lies here. The irony is that if we glimpse this moment of higher consciousness, this Oneness, the ultimate realization is that there is nothing to realize.
Not to look, the rule of finding, love it.
See my reply to Bryan. This is at the core of it I think.
The last one lingers. I think there’s wisdom in it.
Thanks Jane. As classical Haiku I still think it lacks something…there is for instance no Kigo ( seasonal word) I agree there is something here but a rewrite is on the cards.
Keeping to the strict haiku rules is difficult. I find it turns the process into more of a mathematical puzzle than poetry, but the discipline is always good.
I’m hoping to get to the point where I know the rules intuitively.
Keep taking the sake then 🙂
I like the idea of how searching succeeds if one doesn’t look in the last haiku.
Me too. It is I believe an understanding I have developed through drumming and meditation…all I need now is to learn how to ‘not look’ when I’m ‘Not Looking’ 😉
That is a stunning photograph, Paul, and an interesting series of haiku. I tried reading them in a different sequence and this one is a perfect!
a perfect….??? Quick…the suspense is killing me 😉
I did write a whole sentence, honest guv!
hmmm!! 😉
Gorgeously penned, Paul 🙂 especially loved “winter ice will melt there is nothing else to know permanence is not” ❤️
Boy, can I relate to that first one! But I liked all of them – I am very much attracted to Zen and Japanese poetic forms. Easier said than done, though.
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Love your group of haiku, Paul, you described zen well!
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I liked the last one most!
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These are lovely and true, Paul. A delight to read and the truth of these goes deep.
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Lovely series Paul, much wisdom there.
Kind regards
Anna :o]
Thank You Anna
Beautifully done! And a gorgeous photo too!
Thank You Lillian
I find it difficult to write certain forms of poetry though I have before. You did well with this one.
Thanks Sean. Much appreciated.
Amazing! ✨
Thank You. I’d say they are OK. In 40 years they’ll be amazing 😉