Thomas Oak

Thomas Oak Jun 2015

Alone

Sometimes dreams still beckon
but the world soon returns to dust.
Alone nothing lives, alone nothing dies
emptiness realized, where else is there to go?

#now #awakening

Thomas Oak Jun 2015

Grandfather clock

Tick

now

Tock

this.

#time #now #awakening

Thomas Oak May 2015

Quiet afternoon

A cool breeze promises rain.
My old hut creaks with anticipation.

#haiku #silence #weather

Thomas Oak May 2015

Senryu

With an old net and lazy throw
I caught nothing!”

#nature #senryu #awakening

Thomas Oak May 2015

The untold

Sky with no clouds
Earth with no prints
A heron poised in the grasses
Meets my sightless gaze.

I have no feet and no head
Alive so alive!
Unsurpassable beauty
Is spilt all around.

#alive #beauty #awakening #zen

Thomas Oak May 2015

Oneness

I see
and I love,
yet the two dance so tightly
that there is only one.

#love #peace #awakening

Thomas Oak May 2015

Woodland

Today I woke beneath a tree
and you were not there.
I had been dreaming of you again.

#love #nature #longing