Heidegger meets Shankara

Beyond all being
is that Being –
that, whose Being
is our being.

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Self-respect - To the Troubled

'Your only enemy

is yourself'...

Easy to say?

Prove me wrong.

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Poem for Tara, by request

I may be
dyslexic

but I know
not to

carp
over someone else's

parc

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To Kobayashi Issa

A bath when you're born;
a bath when you die;
between, a long river

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A humble poet, or a proud?

Three thousand haikai!
Teishitsu's second thoughts
left only thirty..

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Japanese toilet wall

This Spring, a new name
among the old graffiti -
will it be true love?

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0016 Immortalised - A Not Quaiku

The almond petals
fall as slow as snowflakes
hoping that a poet passes.

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Lonely winter afternoon

When the heron's cry
did not echo in the mist,
did the cliffs hear it?

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A shared secret

My smiling mind winks
at my heart,
reading the first line of your haiku

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To Buson

The great temple bell
and small butterfly asleep
may both be surprised.

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