Drifting Awake » moments http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 street life http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/05/street-life/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/05/street-life/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 15:12:04 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=4084

Berkeley sidewalk
munching on french fries –
grizzled crow

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twilight –
birds, even the crows,
begin their lullaby

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valley wind stirs
long ago memories –
sunny day blues

heartache
floats…
in Nothingness

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cool spring afternoon,
light breeze, rippling leaves:
long sleeve t-shirt

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now playing,
birdsong at dusk
music on the livingnet

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weeds in the garden flourish
unconcerned
their days are numbered

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Sitting in the garden, drinking China tea,
smoking a favorite cigar,
I speak aloud lines from worry free poets,
finding myself the same.

February sun recedes into shade –
simple pleasures, simple life, simpler man.

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laughing in the garden,
blue jay pecking at his feet –
old wooden Budai

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From the side, an entire range;
from the end a single peak;
far, near, high, low,
no two parts alike.

The true face of the mountain
I cannot comprehend –
gazing upon it,
I myself am in the mountain.

[Su Tung-p'o (1084) adapted from translations by Burton Watson and Beata Grant]

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what good fortune:
stopping,
the smell of roses

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low over the valley,
honking geese,
blossoms of fall

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hopping from the arbor up the roof
grape thief jay
flies prize away

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neither the flypaper
nor my hand
keeps the fly
from its appointed buzz

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never too old –
college town shop girl
smites heart with smile

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different and the same,
different and the same –
the beauty of her face,
the beauty of this cove.

different and the same,
different and the same,
her face, this cove,
beauty is the same.

seagulls float
on waves in the cove,
I float on the ledge above.

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