{"id":119,"date":"2022-02-16T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:28:23","slug":"cloister-garth-a-bar-new-poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/?page_id=119","title":{"rendered":"Cloister Garth a Bar (poems)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u00a0These are mostly 5,7,5 haiku style poems. Sometimes the set limit on syllables helps me condense out overexpression. 


 Focus on a place
\u00a0here is a better focus
\u00a0all encompassing\u00a0
- on meditation

\u00a0She beyond herself
\u00a0branches and flowers show it
\u00a0extends toward light
- All of those poems were for you

\u00a0Drawn toward from psychic's vision
\u00a0some gravity is a lover's magnet
\u00a0a treat in rare form
\u00a0- I don't have your number

\u00a0Form combination\u00a0
\u00a0broken down ingredients
\u00a0combination lock
\u00a0- on all things becoming equal

\u00a0This heavenly feel
 powerful loving river
\u00a0full cup, lots to eat

\u00a0Universal pull
\u00a0look for a relic so drawn
\u00a0tourmaline Buddha

\u00a0Quiet and quickly
\u00a0something like the opposite
\u00a0or like energy
\u00a0- similarity in opposites

 Love behind your mask
\u00a0this hopeless man is starving
\u00a0connection saves him
\u00a0- on cruelty and love

\u00a0Sleepless on the eve
\u00a0exhaustion for Ramadan
\u00a0holy state of mind
\u00a0- celebrations Eve

\u00a0Glimmer in the Darkness
\u00a0pink lemonade shadowless
\u00a0quartz ghost antenna

\u00a0A message within
\u00a0every hollow Buddha statue
\u00a0the walking statue
\u00a0- Buddhism's hidden truth

\u00a0A bird can't break seeds
\u00a0it can open dried out seeds
\u00a0it can't cut down trees
\u00a0- vulnerability in transition

\u00a0Dry winter mittens
\u00a0love flourishes good old days
\u00a0between disasters
\u00a0- reminiscing in autumn

\u00a0Harnessed touch
\u00a0throw the yolk
\u00a0bodiless
\u00a0- meditative practice

\u00a0Write by candlelight
\u00a0inky Shadows Mark the page
\u00a0pencil placebo
\u00a0- who wrote this?

 Time for catharsis and movement\u00a0
 top heavy poetry
 smashes below
 - gravity even pulls poetry down

 Fear instilled
 for you
 to be safe

\u00a0Holder of Ember
\u00a0she who couldn't not hold it
\u00a0your purpose summoned
\u00a0- on why you're here

\u00a0Caught embedded fear
\u00a0does that fool slave beyond pay?
 united movement

\u00a0Fear doesn't survive in love
\u00a0we're alive in the Darkness

\u00a0Becoming formless
\u00a0bodies in life drift away
\u00a0gravity pulls them
\u00a0- on the most integral natural law\u00a0

Sing a temporal song
initiate overcomes
They the remained songs\u00a0
- On transmission of light 

FOR AGAINST POEMS

 Within transmission
\u00a0transmission only exists
\u00a0this experience
\u00a0- on transmission of light

 This is who I am
\u00a0power in self-expression
\u00a0strength carried that weight\u00a0
 - On a friend's journey and her realizations through trauma therapy

\u00a0August keeps you up
\u00a0follow Your Shadow out here
\u00a0is this just your dream?
\u00a0- on my daughter's midnight visits while I meditate and write

\u00a0Parallel to yours
\u00a0most everything is askew
\u00a0something's not right
\u00a0- on a dreams trance

\u00a0Compare me with reality
\u00a0he fucked up his haiku
\u00a0and left you counting

\u00a0Stretch
\u00a0yoga
\u00a0mat

\u00a0Where are you going?
\u00a0the force meets the forceless thing
 forceless\u00a0is formless
\u00a0- the wandering Monk

\u00a0Destructive species
\u00a0hidden chamber of the heart
\u00a0the will to disrupt
\u00a0- on the quirky human

\u00a0Half empty refill
\u00a0my heart was at half empty
\u00a0fill my glass and heart
\u00a0- on drinking with good friends

\u00a0tap tap tap tap tap
\u00a0tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
\u00a0I paint like Bob Ross

\u00a0Where is the river?
\u00a0it's full of poison fish
\u00a0I'll follow you there
\u00a0- on the pursuit of Buddhism, the observation of thought, and Zen understanding without directions

\u00a0Cork in the bottle
\u00a0let's pull it out together
\u00a0the bottle of good
\u00a0- on releasing self from self

\u00a0Swoop in the garden
\u00a0come over here and drink friend
\u00a0cloister Garth a bar
\u00a0- on a visiting hummingbird

\u00a0Where's inspiration?
\u00a0your desires don't exist
\u00a0look for them inside
\u00a0- on finding your muse through meditation

Butterflies used to be mirrors
Who reflected
Beautiful souls

This isn't the first
It's the last one above me
This is the second

How forgettable
Here beside the road
Driver do you care?
-waiting for a late night bus

The death of haiku
Just take the least amount
The five seven five

You'll never catch it
That which was thus
Read your memories
(On reliving life through written word)

The sacred gem
Is never easy to find
That isn't sacred

Extinguished candle
Pitched into the darkness
Now we mourn the light

To slice a tart lime
A sensation good night start
Someone in a stream
-on a ritual curated

The tiger hunts
-on women's tennis

An enlightened guide
The master remained opened
Her meditation
-on godessness
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