Two Poems

[cranehaven]

Winter morning,
Keep writing, keep releasing
pain waits for no one

Huddled in my winter down,
knees burning, feet already tired
waiting for a delayed train,
losing patience,
frozen winds picking up speed,
knife-sharp on my worn out face,
I wonder,
Does the crow,
in his black nakedness
feel this ageing winter too?

~P

Comments

[andreochka]

Both are beautiful writings... It's hard for me to make a choice...

[three_stones]

Thank you!

No need to choose...

warm wishes

~P

[yorukamome]

lovely line, Choshi Sama..."HIS BLACK NAKEDNESS",
so VERY wintery and "satori-calling"!

[three_stones]

Arigato gozaimas.....You are a very sensitive reader

Warm wishes

choshi san

[yorukamome]

be the welcome...just knock here! (;-D

http://yorukamome.livejournal.com/55002.html

[yorukamome]

not a simple post - just for closest Friends, my pathmates, on their own page...here it is, for you:

[three_stones]

Lovely,

Thank you for sharing.

I hope this note finds you in good health and spirits. I don't get to Lj very much these days as I prepare for ordination into the Soto Zen priesthood and write my next book keeps me very busy.

I appreciate that you thought of me

domo arigato gozaimas

Re: SOTO PRIESTHOOD CONFUSION/MY UNDERSTANDING

[cranehaven]

Hi Claudia,

I am delighted to hear from you and to receive your enthusiasm and warm feelings regarding my ordination. No, I'm not becoming a monastic, but service is a priority. I will be ordained as a lay priest with authorization to perform rites, teach [as sensei] conduct dokusan. I have also been authorized to start a group that is affiliated with Udumbara Zen Center in Evanston, Il. where I am preparing for ordination under the guidance of Sojun Diane Martin Roshi, Abbot. She studied with Suzuki and Katigiri and is also a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst so I feel very much in excellent hands with Diane.

Here is a link to my Zen group:

http://absentmindzen.org/

Oops, its been so long that I forgot the HTML for an active link

In gassho and warm wishes

~P