searching for serenity

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

over the rainbow 1

would you give
away
5 years
to get
over
the rainbow?

gimme just
one
year

and i'll
show
you
the way
to get
there

[addendum]:

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby ii ii iii
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh ooooh

Friday, July 1, 2011

closer to the flying elephants

after 16 years
of zazen
one step closer
to the sky,
to the flying
elephants

no step
no sky
no flying elephants
just

[thank you, Kaimei]

["In the beginning of time, the skies were filled with flying elephants. Too heavy for their wings, they sometimes crashed through the trees and frightened other animals.

All the flying grey elephants migrated to the source of the Ganges. They agreed to renounce their wings and settle on the earth.  When they molted millions of wings fell to the earth, the snow covered them, and the Himalayas were born.

The blue elephants landed in the sea and their wings became fins.  They are whales, the trunkless elephants of the oceans.  Their cousins are the manatees, the trunkless elephants of the rivers.

The chameleon elephants kept their wings but agreed never again to land on the earth.  They change the colors of their feathers every day.  Today they are azure, and when it rains they are the color of pearls.

When they go to sleep, the chameleon elephants always lie down in the same place in the sky and dream with one eye open.  The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us." Gregory Colbert, 77]