Category: Tanka
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Complex
Feeding like a mold Inferiority grows Drawing life from past Feedings, grows stronger, larger Accepting the past starves it Releasing attachment heals Self
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Irony
Chase riches or fame And you may find achievement a curse Pursue letting go of such things And you may find peace
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Et tu?
Patient inquiry Do you suffer like me? Am I not human? Than all that is human in you Is not foreign to me
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Sunday vibes
I was going to Write a haiku for Sunday But I’m tired because My wife made me take her to The mall to buy dresses, sigh So instead I wrote a tanka
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Unio mentalis
In order to unify First must be separation Thinking from feeling Only then can they unify Creating wholeness of Self
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Self?
When a thought occurs One presence speaks, another listens A third witnesses All are you, yet none are you So why would you believe them?
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Writing
Sometimes when I write I am compelled to scribble The words from my soul Sometimes my soul doesn’t speak Only stares wordless in the dark