Have you ever gone fishing
With fresh bait, new line
And good company alongside
Life feeling fine?
I used to love to fish
Not catching but trolling
My father rowing slowly
The clouds above rolling
And all of nature cooing
With pleasure at being
My watch left at home
Releasing and freeing.
The world just stopped spinning
The water unbroken
My father and I communed
No words spoken.
Here, many years later
I think back and cherish
How much he taught me
In times that won't perish.
Silence sometimes
Can say so much more
Make happy from sad
And rich from the poor.
Moments
Moments
koan wrote: Have you ever gone fishing
With fresh bait, new line
And good company alongside
Life feeling fine?
I used to love to fish
Not catching but trolling
My father rowing slowly
The clouds above rolling
And all of nature cooing
With pleasure at being
My watch left at home
Releasing and freeing.
The world just stopped spinning
The water unbroken
My father and I communed
No words spoken.
Here, many years later
I think back and cherish
How much he taught me
In times that won't perish.
Silence sometimes
Can say so much more
Make happy from sad
And rich from the poor.
Beautiful. Plain and simple.
With fresh bait, new line
And good company alongside
Life feeling fine?
I used to love to fish
Not catching but trolling
My father rowing slowly
The clouds above rolling
And all of nature cooing
With pleasure at being
My watch left at home
Releasing and freeing.
The world just stopped spinning
The water unbroken
My father and I communed
No words spoken.
Here, many years later
I think back and cherish
How much he taught me
In times that won't perish.
Silence sometimes
Can say so much more
Make happy from sad
And rich from the poor.
Beautiful. Plain and simple.
Moments
A superb combination of ordinary words to give extraordinary and penetrating meaning. The beauty of poetry as an art is clearly exhibited in this piece.
A formula for tact: "Be brief politely, be aggressive smilingly, be emphatic pleasantly, be positive diplomatically, be right graciously".
Moments
Koan, where do you get all this from? You have a colorful mind indeed.
Everyone has these on their face? TULIPS.
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Beautiful Koan.