Monday, July 11, 2022
THREE OLD MONK POEMS (249)
IN THE DESERT
In the desert
you have to know --
you can't ask
directions,
the old monk said.
~
YOU TURN
You turn.
You turn back.
Can you return
to where
you turned from,
the old monk asked.
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THERE ARE
There are omens
and portents,
the old monk said,
but not nearly
as many
as you think.
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