Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Gogyohka 9.9.09

More from yesterday:

This gray day
reminds me
I am just
a sundial
overcast with clouds

Amid the licorice bloom
of fennel
and the musky crush
of dropped piles of pears
a few bumblebees visit roses

The husky, tobaccoed corn stalk
gestures like an elder statesman
arm bent in some grand purview
of all this fallow land
waiting to come under his tasseled top

I wonder
when exchanging emails
with Japanese friends
if they ever see the greeting "Hi"
and hear "Yes," too

And from today:

The meaning of life
is simply to accept life
The wave curls only to crash
broken into pieces
that recede back into the sea

2 comments:

Lorri Lambert-Smith said...

This one intrigues me so much I have to play with it a bit. I hope you don't mind:

I wonder
when exchanging emails
with Japanese friends
if they ever see the greeting "Hi"
and hear "yes" too.

It isn't really a question but a pondering. It's so fricking cool! It separates and makes visible the shimmering strands of communication. Nice!

Tim said...

yes! YOu have made it perfect, as my Japanese friends say. I will edit and then post this on the International BBS and see what they think.