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Daily Archives: January 28, 2013

28 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Poetry

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Follow the Female Buddha

Watermoon Guanyin, Sanyi, Taiwan

I also saw the moon

and so I say goodbye

to this world

Chiyo-ni

In Japanese poetry the moon is often a reference to enlightenment.  In this death poem by Buddhist nun Chiyo-ni, she expresses her final words to the world and her experience of awakening.  Is it a glimpse?  A continuous state of mind?

As one of the great haiku poets of her time, Chiyo-ni expresses a sense of wakefulness in all her poems with sublime beauty and metaphor.  She wrote her first poem at age six and spent her life devoted to the arts of 18th century Japan.

In my garden

starflowers bloom

come and see.

Chiyo-ni, age 6

While her choice to become a Buddhist nun came later in her life after the death of her husband, the temple near her home was purported to be a strong influence in her life.  Her devotion to the wonder…

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Propelling Poems

28 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, drawing, Faber and Castell, muse, pencils, poetry, sketching, writing

 

辉柏嘉(Faber-Castell)铅笔与橡皮

 

 

 

Graphite sticks propelling poems,

Indian white erasing Koans,

Faber’s fables etching easels,

pencil led creating castells;

without my scribe,

where would I be,

blotted books,

anonymity.

 

© Propelling Poems 28.01.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

辉柏嘉(Faber-Castell)铅笔与橡皮 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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