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ZenOfferings Jul 2020
Once they have control
The many will celebrate
They'll call it world peace
ZenOfferings Jul 2020
Cling to righteousness
Legislate morality...
...Justify dissent
When being forced to do the right thing, I hope you choose the wrong thing -- for it holds the new righteous reason
ZenOfferings Jul 2020
Where ends natural?
Biological weapons?
The fear in our hearts?
ZenOfferings Sep 2020
Mind the terrorist
In time, he brings the very peace
You fear is destroyed
Behold, The Revolutionist
ZenOfferings Sep 2020
Non-duality
Complements duality
What's beyond beyond?
ZenOfferings Oct 2020
Bells, procedures; and
Students learn to break a heart
Before tie a shoe
ZenOfferings Oct 2018
Purest of water
No longer has room for fish
Let life be fishy!
ZenOfferings Oct 2020
Looking for the void
Constitutes your very bones
Still you labor on
Still seeking the Tao?
ZenOfferings Dec 2020
The toad does notice
Most the river runs by it
But the whirlpool sings
Relax into the chaos you find at life's periphery
ZenOfferings Jan 2021
That which lily pads
Do not do -- Oh fantastic!
The water shimmers ~
ZenOfferings Feb 2021
Inherit..h e a v e n
Where a mass of our mistakes
Met the biomass
As of 2020, by estimates, the anthropogenic mass now outweighs all living biomass on earth
ZenOfferings Feb 2021
Loud truck rumbling
A strained love call from tree tops
Man picking mushrooms
An unfiltered listen of early spring
ZenOfferings Mar 2021
Master's makeshift meal
Weeds whistle with the widow
Mourning matter makes
ZenOfferings Jul 2021
Prized beautiful beach!
Plant your heels!  Lasso that wave!
Ride, surfer cowboy
Hogtied with the karmic circle
ZenOfferings Jul 2021
What's needed to see
World peace -- a miracle, or
Magnifying glass
ZenOfferings Nov 2021
I know reflections
Of a thousand other mirrors
This - the path I tread
Again I'm lost staring into Indra's net
ZenOfferings Nov 2021
You either smilin'
Or you silent; by choice or
Broke rights and violence
ZenOfferings Sep 2019
I remember the weather the day that I met you
Sunny; with a storm in your back pocket

I remember your beauty
Vividly shone through
The tears that you knew to erase it

I was your rock
Steadfast, protruding
A cold slab for bleeding
The demons out of your soul

But after four years
You were all bled out
Dried was the well of your anguish
My only hope for us is that you do not linger as I do
ZenOfferings Mar 2019
Maybe its the loneliness that paints this moment black
Or maybe its the long shadows as the sun does set
Maybe its the sorrow from the stress of all of that
Perhaps its just the crossroads that my life is at

I'm not asking for an answer,
Or even acknowledgement in fact

Just know that you've been on my mind
ZenOfferings Aug 2019
And she's dead now

And when my moment came in the procession of faces all I could muster was, "I'm sorry it is under these circumstances that I am finally seeing you again"

And you managed, "Better now than never again"

And my eyes are dry but my heart is in a twisted knot of emotion

And I can't decide whether you have played yourself the fool or have spoken the profound wisdom

And I let one tear drop and decide you've done both
As I shake the hand of the father of an old next door neighbor, whom I played with when I was no more than five years old.  I only 25 now, she only 27.
ZenOfferings Feb 2019
Every hour that first day
Every day that next week
Once a week the month of September
Now once a month I cry

I hope you never cried for me
You asked me to say goodbye
I hope you’ve never known such joy

To the love that I let die
A personal departure from Zen.
ZenOfferings May 2019
Its easy to let go
I could do it if I tried
The knots back in my stomach
Are only my disguise
Perhaps I place you up so high because you threw me down so low
ZenOfferings Aug 2022
Holding onto other people's traumas
So I'm not left facing my own
Figure if I keep helping others'
I'll solve mine alone with a poem
ZenOfferings Dec 2020
Here all the choice that lay beforith

To eat thereof the tree of life an **** it as thy bask fatted in the glory of a newborn star

Or to abstain there frometh an look inside eternal black thusly with knowledge that your stomach's redeeming feast is but a headturn away
ZenOfferings Aug 2019
And she said,
"The **** I have to deal with is unreal"
And I said,
"You're right"
ZenOfferings Feb 2019
I used to worry
About what counted as Zen

But I set that burden down long ago
And you're still clinging to that question
ZenOfferings Apr 2024
Power and privilege can be chased if you're addicted to the change you can create.  Even if you're bold enough to claim righteous deeds, you become untrustworthy.
But even as you least expect it, power and privilege will find you in life, and it's that kind of power -- when the universe bestows it -- with which you can absolutely be trusted.
Champion your dharma and live out your dramatic truth in all the universal glory.
ZenOfferings Apr 2019
She's a wayward soul
But she just so happened
To wander into my home

My doors I leave open
She'll probably soon go
But settle she might

For I really do hate
To wander alone
"Why are you still here?"  "Can't you see you're too good for me?"
ZenOfferings Feb 2019
It's the perfect recipe for disaster
ZenOfferings Mar 2019
Mother offered us trees
We cut her bare

Mother poured her blood for us
Black, like tar

Mother gave us her oceans
We fill it with our trash
As if it wasn't already full

Now she has little left to give
But people

Are you ready for our great divide?
What does exploitation look like when our planet's greatest natural resource is other humans?
ZenOfferings Jan 2019
I started wearing that necklace again
The one with the little key on it

For the longest time I thought that it was out of place
That it ceased to belong the day I lost the lock

But I started wearing that necklace again
It used to be the key to your heart

But its since unlocked my own
A departure from haiku
This poem welled up inside me -- similar to Haiku 1

Haiku 1 inspired me to begin sharing with you all, so I had to honor this similar feeling by sharing this poem as well.
ZenOfferings Feb 2019
Feeling good feels just as bad
Expect greater diversity in my second collection of works.
ZenOfferings Mar 2019
Find a childhood photograph
Remember your infancy
From nothing you came
Everything you've learned since then
Is just a game you play
ZenOfferings Sep 2020
Those in power lose sleep watching our every move

To go so far as to blanket our world in satellites

But those oppressed have been watching them in excess of ten thousand years

Oh how they long for that kind of control

Their ***** truth is that the meek have already inherited the Earth a hundred times over
ZenOfferings Jul 2019
His feet stir with longing
Baggage barely clinging to his fingertips
He escapes the outbound missile
Crosses the platform as if it was an existential crisis
And catches the wind
To blow him home
Away from the way he resides
A train station at midday

— The End —