ATAT and Us All

Untitled as yet. Posted on my FB earlier too. See under : 

Thomas Cartier Rodeo

Giant ATAT
blazing away at a gnat sized Luke.
Force the battery away?

The problem was the giant anger in the driver
wait till spent,
the ATAT was set at rest.

Jedi, they wait
like us all
in the rain
beneath the mighty. --MWT. fin 11:40pm 2019-09-20.

Christmas and New Years

I've been busy studying over the last several months back here in Canada. I have also been writing brief zen poems in Chinese along with reading lots of haiku.  I do indeed enjoy the non-traditional haiku that are shorter than the standard 5-7-5. Often times those with the shortest closing lines are the ones that prove to be most striking in the impact of their imagery. I shall post some of my seasonal zen poems for autumn and winter later. Until then, here's a poem for the upcoming New Year :  

the great temple bell

sound surrounds the silent crowd

New Year. monk smiles

photo credit : J.Labrado

~~~

The Deepest Sea

The Deepest Sea

Nightly

we drift

like sand upon sea

then, into the deep

we dive,

swim

with the elements of our day

and dream.

This East Sea

is the Pacific

later the Atlantic

reaches all continents.

This East Sea

is rain

falling on mountains

drunken by millions of mothers

swishing around babies

that are being formed.

Our dreams, you see

are

in that sea

always being formed.

The sea connects us all

forms us

carries us

as when we die

Buried,

we become all undone as dust

washed by rain

slowly

we drift

to become like sand upon sea

into the deep

we further die

to swim with the elements of our days

and dream

in the deepest sea.

--M.T.

-- presented Aug 4 2009 2:10pm Busan Sea/Marine Literature Festival

Written a week before in a taxi coming to LG Metrocity from Busan Immigration.