The
Poetry & Prose
of Graham Fox
My writing is an exploration of Zen in poetry and prose.
ZEN Prose
ZEN Poetry
Laughing and Crying
Crying and laughing
On cherry-blossom
Wetted pavements I let go.
The displacement of
A water-boat-man
Hardly bends
Light still lighter
The Zen mind.
Building the imaginable”
On the unimaginable
That is what you
You and I do
Well my friend
Empty your pockets
And open the door
Meet the unimaginable
Chrysanthemum frog.
When jasmine
Flowers
The scent
Of jasmine.
I breathe
And
The stone
Beside me
Breathes.”
COMMENT:
Yes! Also, omit the ‘and’? I nearly did but I didn’t because it provides the link, it implies kinship; the rock’s breathing is not separated from my breathing. Moreover on a larger scale the subject is not billions of entities breathing on one planet but ‘one breathing’ everywhere, not billions of Buddha natures on Earth but one Buddha nature throughout. The poem describes one event.
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