After Reading Poems Inspired By Zen Buddhism

by m

sudden insight:

it is you who are poetry in motion.
(poetry is in the details, after all…’Show, don’t tell.’)

To answer a Koan:

Discard reason. Discard all attempts to
find a rational answer to the question and
simply let the answer happen.

    – From Dick Allen’s
“Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound: On
Zen Buddhism & Poetry”

Our Koan:

we are poetry in motion.
Is poetry dead? Are we?

Answer:

What I am searching for and you are
settled on.
(can only be discovered by an inquiry together.)

Insight:

Nothing is always.
Except what is always.

Ending:

There is no such thing.
Only beginning.