Sunday, July 25, 2021

TEN OLD MONK POEMS (25) 


YOU WAIT

You wait long enough,
the wind comes again,
the old monk says.
That's patience.

~

WHAT LETS YOU

What lets you
fall so far

down is what
lifts you up,

the old monk
promised.

~

IF YOU SPEND

If you spend your time
talking like a monk
people might think that
you are a monk,
the old monk said,
but he didn't mean
to sound like that.

~

THAT PARALLEL

That parallel
universe --
it's right here.
Touch it,
the old monk said.

~

AT SUCH A MOMENT

At such a moment
it all lets go,
the old monk says,
let go with it.

~

THE SHADOWS

The shadows that went
up the mountain
this morning are
coming down tonight,
the old monk said.

~

IF YOU COULD BE

If you could be
both and neither,
the old monk said,
you would be the one.

~

I KNOW IT

I know it,
the old monk said.
Sometimes I just
don't see it,
I don't say it.

~

THIS IS THE WAY

This is the way
it'll work,
the old monk said.
You show me
you can fly,
you can have
the job.

~

DON'T WRITE IT

Don't write it down
if you think it's
important,
the old monk said.
Live it.

~

I COULD GIVE YOU

I could give you
a good deal,
the old monk said,
but then you might
think you cheated.

~


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