...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

 

 

No path but this one-

I walk alone.

Santoka Taneda

 

Jakua

Cuckoo,

let's go - how bright

the western skies!

from Japanese Death Poem,  

May 5, 1801

The setting October Super Moon - Harvest moon