Thursday, February 12, 2026




...But how can I ever find
the way to quiet my mind?

On moonlit nights, and
even nights blotted of the moon,
I lie disconsolate...

Shinkei
from Zen Poems





REMEMBERING FALL











 

Tuesday, February 10, 2026










Cranes in the wilderness, lonely clouds - their
destination is uncertain...

Betsugen Enshi
from: Zen Poems


 

Monday, December 1, 2025


All the people I see 
live awhile then die
sixteen only yesterday
a strong and passionate youth
today he's over seventy
his strength and looks long gone
just like a spring day flower
blooming at dawn gone by dusk

The Collected Songs of 
Cold Mountain





First Snow


Mountain Lion prints, sharing the trail!



 

Tuesday, November 25, 2025


WEATHER

When it’s cold and raining,
you are more beautiful.
And the snow brings me
even closer to your lips.
The inner secret, that which was never born,
you are that freshness, and I am with you now.
I can’t explain the goings,
or the comings. You enter suddenly,
and I am nowhere again.
Inside the majesty.

-Rumi







 

Friday, October 17, 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025





Jakua

Cuckoo,
let's go - how bright
the western skies!

from Japanese Death Poem,  
May 5, 1801




The setting October Super Moon - Harvest moon