Thomas Oak: Poems

Jun 2015 · 386

Grandfather clock

Thomas Oak Jun 2015

Grandfather clock

Tick

now

Tock

this.

#time #now #awakening

May 2015 · 691

Quiet afternoon

Thomas Oak May 2015

Quiet afternoon

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

#haiku #silence #weather

May 2015 · 314

Senryu

Thomas Oak May 2015

Senryu

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

#nature #senryu #awakening

May 2015 · 565

The untold

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

May 2015 · 1.3k

Oneness

Thomas Oak May 2015

Oneness

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

#love #peace #awakening

May 2015 · 1.8k

Woodland

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

May 2015 · 631

Awaiting reunion

Thomas Oak May 2015

Awaiting reunion

Each morning the same question,
the same sickly sweet knot in my tummy.

How long now?

#love #sorrow #sweetness

May 2015 · 327

Just do what you do

Thomas Oak May 2015

Just do what you do

Flowers turn
to meet the morning sun.
This is my religion.

#truth #peace #haiku #happiness

May 2015 · 1.5k

Only a teapot between us

Thomas Oak May 2015

Only a teapot between us

Sunlit eyes
like autumn pools
We smile over a *** of jasmine tea.

#love #peace #haiku

May 2015 · 254

Rain or shine

Thomas Oak May 2015

Rain or shine

Sometimes sun, sometimes rain
Wind blows in the rushes
and I am so happy.

#peace #happiness #nature

May 2015 · 445

Kiss

Thomas Oak May 2015

Kiss

So tender
Each kiss
says what a thousand words cannot.

#love #life #haiku

May 2015 · 423

Wandering moon

Thomas Oak May 2015

Wandering moon

Beneath chattering palms
ocean waves talk quietly.
Quieter still, the crescent moon wanders the night.

#happiness #meditation #silence

May 2015 · 299

They write themselves

Thomas Oak May 2015

They write themselves

Like snow outside my window
words fall to paper.

#poem #life #haiku

May 2015 · 554

Clouds

Thomas Oak May 2015

Clouds

Clouds become dragons
become clouds
become words.

#life #haiku

May 2015 · 266

Why wait?

Thomas Oak May 2015

Why wait?

Why wait?
a breath
a day of sunshine
and this life is gone.

#love #life #death

May 2015 · 301

Because of love

Thomas Oak May 2015

Because of love

Your sleeping breath on my skin
and then my eyes mirrored in yours.

These few words can only point to the love I feel
waking with you this morning.

#love #life

May 2015 · 243

Listen

Thomas Oak May 2015

Listen

Putting a shell to my ear
I listen to the ocean.
Activity becomes no mind
no mind becomes activity.

#happiness #nature

May 2015 · 694

Lakeside dreaming

Thomas Oak May 2015

Lakeside dreaming

Waving pines
in the lake
I am lost in the reflections.

A mosquito
bites my foot
and I pass from one dream to the next.

#happiness #nature

May 2015 · 961

Lakeside awakening

Thomas Oak May 2015

Lakeside awakening

Pine needles fall to the lake's surface.
The world ripples,
beginning again,
and again.

#happiness #nature

May 2015 · 796

Rainstorm at night

Thomas Oak May 2015

Rainstorm at night

Rain hammers
and lightning paints the sky bright violet -
illuminating patterns in puddles.

#haiku #nature

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