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MyohoRengeKyo

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Living on the beach
Winter and summer's the same
It's a paradise
-odmmb

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Blackeyed Susan

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Spring and Fall
got together one day
those two are
most everybody's
favorite seasons
so when they got together
they really made the sparks fly
(it's all in the chemistry)
-odmmb

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Christmas 2004

..........Winter could be spent listening to
whisper of snowflakes falling into silence of
evergreens' waiting arms,
Following slushy wet footprints
through deep, white snowfalls;
Scribbling lines on pages of birchbark,
Making up things about living in the mountains,
Sipping sassafras tea steaming hot and
sweetened with wild honey.. :-)
Aye, but far from being an escape from
the ordinary world,
this is an ordinary world....
-odmmb...

Amarillis

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CompositosaurusSef

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Like a cloud
This lifetime has drifted past
It's shadow moves on
-//\\-
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Enlightenment... so elusive!
Like birds in bushes, of which Grandma said,
"sprinkle salt on their tail and you can catch them."
A preacher said,
"sit down over there, honey and wait.
They'll come to you."
But another one down the road laughed scornfully,
"You must run out and catch them and
wrestle them to the ground!" he shouted.
Enlightenment!
Everybody else knows how to get it.
They tell us exactly how.
Some even tell us not to bother,
that we already have it now.
And just what is it anyway?
This Enlightenment dude?
Is it learning how to live in peace?
Not to fight and feud?
Or is it knowing how to live?
Or how to die?
Or how to feel feelings?
How to cry?
Is Enlightenment a different bird
in every different tree?
Or is it all one and the same thing?
That every eye can see?
How will you know if you get it?
How will you know it's true?
Or is it like the birds in the bushes
Captured by only a few?
Enlighten ME, N.T!
--odmmb

Night
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