Tuesday, November 01, 2022

THREE OLD MONK POEMS (347) 


WHAT YOU KNOW

What you know
you know

is useless
if you don't

want to use it,
the old monk said.

~

LEANING ON

Leaning on your walking stick
doesn't get you up the mountain.

It doesn't make you holy,
the old monk said.

~

YOU NEED

You need so much
rain for the flowers,

so much moonlight
on the pines,

the old monk said,
so much silence

in the evening.

~



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