ZEN Theatre for Beauty and the Arts

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 11:32am

What is in the mind of the spring wind,

blowing day and night in these groves and gardens?

It never asks who owns the peach and plum trees

but blows away their petals without a word.

Ch'i-chi








Updated On: 7/31/06 at 11:32 AM

[Phantom2]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:06pm

Chia Pet!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:36pm

zany, bebe

[willact4food]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:57pm

loves it.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 1:24pm

See:

http://www.rkdm.com/chiapet/index.htm

and see:

chi·a
n.
An aromatic annual plant (Salvia columbariae) in the mint family, native to Mexico and the southwest United States and having clusters of blue or violet flowers and edible seedlike fruits.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 7:43pm

To the Dead Favourite of Liu Ch’e

(excerpt)

The sound of rustling silk is stilled,
With solemn dust the court is filled...
Her little golden drink is spilled.

Her painted fan no more shall rise...
And every day a sunset dies.

Her birds no longer coo and call,
The cherry blossoms fade and fall...
And through her runs no sound at all.

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)
Updated On: 4/2/06 at 07:43 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:48pm

My faith is all a doubtful thing,
Wove on a doubtful loom,—
Until there comes, each showery spring,
A cherry-tree in bloom;
And Christ who died upon a tree
That death had stricken bare,
Comes beautifully back to me,
In blossoms, everywhere.


David Morton, "Symbol"
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1922)

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:23pm

O to be delivered from the rational into the realm of pure song...

Roethke

[Mamamia Sammy2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:29pm

"I'm rubber. You're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you"

-Anonymous

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:33pm

Silliness is hot.

[Mamamia Sammy2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:34pm

Being mean is not.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:37pm

They say God loves a cheerful giver
And I, I do not care for liver

[Mamamia Sammy2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:46pm

A little song, a little dance
A little seltzer down your pants

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 5:02pm

I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind that sings so loud a song.

Robert Louis Stevenson

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:06pm

very nice :)

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:28pm

We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thought.

With our thoughts we make the world.


The Buddha

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:05pm

I would assume that the same rule that forbids the publishing of complete song lyrics on this board must apply to complete poems as well.

MODERATOR? What say you?

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:08pm

no copyright violation here

public domain or fair use only
Updated On: 4/4/06 at 09:08 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:09pm

Come to Jesus all God's creatures! Even if you have to wriggle on your belly like a reptile!

Come to Jesus!

Find the way to the Lord!

Updated On: 4/4/06 at 09:09 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:31pm

I remember a "trader" who said something similar.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:33pm

The forces which move the Cosmos are no different from those which move the human soul.

Lama Govinda

[etoile]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:45pm

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
Sanctimonious hypocrisy makes the baby Jesus weep.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:48pm

Finally, something useful from etoile.

[wickedwitchofthechest]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:59pm

Stand by a stump waiting for more suicidal hares. - Chinese Proverb

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:04am

An' she don't mean AbbaRabbit!