Spring flowers, the autumn moon;
Summer breezes, winter snow.
If useless things do not clutter your mind,
You have the best season of your life.
-Wu Men
Spring Flowers
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Tag Archives: Zen poetry
A Lightning Flash Or A Dewdrop
To what shall I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop
it is no more.
– Sengai
Gratitudue Overcomes Me
A Shroud of Mist
by Lisa Ernst
Whatever it is, I cannot understand it
Although gratitude stubbornly overcomes me
Until I am reduced to tears.
– Saigyo
The Lotus Blooms in The Mud 