HAIKU #42
HAIKU #42 Radio tower strobe flashes against the night, a make-believe star. ©T. Patrick Berry Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
HAIKU #44 - NATURAL BRIDGE
HAIKU #44 - NATURAL BRIDGE Stone flows like water, stream spanning dry, barren rock - to God, all the same. ©T. Patrick Berry Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
HAIKU #43
HAIKU #43 A speeding ticket seen through the lens of my wife’s career as a preschool teacher Drive fast, flashing lights, man in blue at the window - expensive time out. ©T. Patrick Berry Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
I HAD NO IDEA: FINDING A COMPILATION OF RUMI BY ACCIDENT
I had no idea of going there, not really, just a thought on the way elsewhere - As long as we’re in town, we may as well... I had no idea books were sold at this place where I hadn’t planned to go. I had no idea there was a poetry section in the books I didn’t know were sold where I hadn’t planned... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
WHISPERS
Your door opens. Samoht walks in and bows reverently. You get no reply when you ask his business in your house. Instead of words directed at you, he offers prayers, whispered behind an upraised hand or piece of paper - as if the hand or paper rendered the world deaf. He whispers these prayers... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
EARLY MEDITATION EXPERIENCE, TUMALO STATE PARK, MID-1960s
EARLY MEDITATION EXPERIENCE, TUMALO STATE PARK, MID-1960s What was it we said the day the Thunder called as I sat alone with You on the lava crags of Oregon, meditating without knowing meditation? Nothing and everything, all I needed, though I knew not what that was; all I wanted, though wanting... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
KIRTAP’S TRAVELS
KIRTAP’S TRAVELS Kirtap sits in his living room reading travel brochures and discussing foreign lands with friends, then goes about boasting of his travels. One does not travel by thinking and talking about it. Nor do we worship by concerning ourselves with others who are on the Way while not bowing... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, September 11, 2006
NIGHT SOUNDS
NIGHT SOUNDS Those strange night sounds, those odd tracks in the snow around the illuminated deer in the front yard? Just the real deer - some snorting in derision, others rolling in hysterics - as they behold the electric herd bobbing like a band of drunks. ©T. Patrick Berry Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
KIRTAP’S ACCOMPANIST
KIRTAP’S ACCOMPANIST Kirtap sings - but while he knows the song, the accompanist does not. Missed notes and timing, playing as if drunken, the accompanist blunders along as Kirtap, ever the gracious showman, sings loud to mask the errors. Sing your life loud, good friend, even when your accompanist... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, September 8, 2006
AGAIN
AGAIN Written on the 729 th anniversary of Rumi’s death Again, this longing. Again, the world is empty. Again, the road leaves this village where the spirit sleeps. Again, I travel towards awakening, not knowing the way. Again, these lessons descend like birds. Again, I recognize those I have not... Sign in to see full entry.