July 28, 2019

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The World

I thought you were an anchor in the drift of the
world; but no: there isn't any anchor anywhere.
There isn't an anchor in the drift of the world.
Oh no. I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of
the world.

- William Bronk, American Poet, 1918 - 1996
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Poetry

And it was at that age...Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know,
I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river,
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
not words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

-Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet-diplomat
1904 - 1973



























































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June 23, 2019

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The trouble is
everyman
keeps a prisoner
groaning
in his heart

- Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese poet 1886 - 1912

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Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,
Without looking for the traces I may have left;
A cuckoo’s song beckons me to return home,
Hearing this, I tilt my head to see
Who has told me to turn back;
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.

- Eihei Dogen 1200 - 1253 AD
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June 17, 2019

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June 7, 2019

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This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!


- Hamlet, William Shakespeare 



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Haiku

Give my dream back,
raven! The moon you woke me to
is misted over. 

ONITSURA, Japanese Haiku Poet, 1738

April 21, 2019

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Haiku

I write, erase, rewrite,
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.

- HOKUSHI, Japanese Haiku Poet 1718


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