{"id":411,"date":"2009-01-20T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/big-day-quiet-poems\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:11:00","slug":"big-day-quiet-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/big-day-quiet-poems.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Day, Quiet Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Here are some quiet poems to mark the end of the first day with an African-American President. He has already made a big difference in the lives of many young people I know.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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So here\u2019s Stonehouse from <\/span>The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0He\u2019s still making a difference about 700 years after his death, not only through one of his successors who invigorated the Korean dharma<\/a> world, but through this recent translation of his work by Red Pine.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Standing outside my pointed-roof hut\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
how much space do you think is inside<\/span><\/div>\n
all the worlds of the universe are there<\/span><\/div>\n
with room to spare for a zazen cushion<\/span><\/div>\n

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I mediate alone in the quiet and dark<\/span><\/div>\n
where nothing comes to mind<\/span><\/div>\n
I sweep the steps when the west wind is done<\/span><\/div>\n
I make a path for the moonlight<\/span><\/div>\n

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Now that I\u2019m old nothing disturbs me<\/span><\/div>\n
I\u2019m asleep on my cot before the sun sets<\/span><\/div>\n
dreaming unaware who I am<\/span><\/div>\n
until the new moon lights the plum blossoms<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here are some quiet poems to mark the end of the first day with an African-American President. He has already made a big difference in the lives of many young people I know.\u00a0 So here\u2019s Stonehouse from The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit. \u00a0He\u2019s still making a difference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBig Day, Quiet Poems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are some quiet poems to mark the end of the first day with an African-American President. 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