Every single thing 

changes and is changing

always in this world.

Yet with the same light

the moon goes on shining.

Saigyo

March's  full Worm Moon setting

 

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely

is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi

II, 2383]

 

...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

 

Cranes in the wilderness, lonely clouds - their

destination is uncertain...

Betsugen Enshi

from: Zen Poems

 

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!

 

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