In this section I have spiritual poetry written by me at different points along my spiritual awakening journey. The majority of these poems were written after I received epiphanies or wisdom insights regarding my true nature. The tanka and haiku are written in the koan spirit.
The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
A koan is a puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening. Tanka and haiku poetry should not be consumed one after the other. Rather, each day you can read one of these poems, then take the rest of the day to contemplate it. When seeking the deeper meaning of the poetry an insight can happen. The longer poems are also spiritual and can give insight to the reader. I hope you enjoy my poetry!
Long Poems
- Poem: There is No Separation
- Poem: Letting Go
- Poem: Death is a New Beginning
- Poem: Coming to Life
- The Sky Has Opened
- Poem: The World I Experience
- Poem: Old Bubbles Rising to the Surface
- Poem: What You Focus On Manifests
- Poem: The Four Rewards
- Poem: Who wants to look into a bright mirror?
- Poem: Nice to Meet You!
- Poem: Communication
- Poem: Balance Happens By Itself
- Poem: Transformation II
- Poem: What’s It Like to Be Aware?
- Poem: In a Clear Blue Sky
- Poem: Question What You can SEE
- Poem: The Beauty of a Rose
- Poem: Unconditional Love, The Universal Cure
- Poem: Reflections on Nature
- Poem: Walking Down My Road
- Poem: Ending Your Loneliness
- Poem: The First Day of Fall
- Poem: My Life is On Hold
- Poem: Passing Time…
- Poem: Polish the Mirror of Our Heart
- Poem: My Thoughts with Michelle
- Poem: Vigilance
- Poem: Rocks on the Railway Bed
- Poem: Fear is Not Present
- Poem: Who’s watching?
- Poem: Many times I feel alone
- Poem: Mind Voice
- Poem: Father, Take the Reins
- Poem: Response to September 11, 2001
- Poem: The Politician
Tanka & Haiku Poems
- Haiku: Aligned With Nature
- Tanka: Going Beyond History
- Haiku: Cicada Forest
- Tanka: Summer Solstice
- Tanka: Smokey
- Tanka: Reliving My Dream
- Haiku: Winter’s Healing Frost
- Haiku: Howling wind
- Haiku: Hens Burst Into Song
- Tanka: Polyp On Coral
- Tanka: Promise of Pleasure
- Tanka: Tornado Vortex
- Tanka: One Step At A Time
- Tanka: Shell of Protection
- Tanka: Kundalini Transformation
- Tanka: Stark Confrontation
- Tanka: Allowing Deep Sleep
- Tanka: Shells of Indifference
- Tanka: Transformation
- Tanka: Mirror of Darkness
- Tanka: San Diego Tiger
- Tanka: Memories of Light
- Tanka: Wavy Blue Cosmos
- Tanka: Lost in Inside World
- Tanka: Hummingbird
- Tanka: Light on Earth
- Tanka: Noticing My Fear
- Tanka: Focused Intention
- Tanka: Waves of Energy
- Tanka: Seeing My Smallness
- Tanka: Gazing at the Sun
- Tanka: Holding Images
- Tanka: Seeing What I’m Not
- Tanka: Deep Pool
- Tanka: Collected Pressure
- Tanka: Darting, Buzzing, Flies
- Tanka: A Day Full of Rain
- Tanka: Watching the Watcher
- Tanka: Not Wanting to Harm
- Tanka: If I Had Your Past
- Tanka: Look Into My Eyes
- Tanka: A Spider At Dawn
- Tanka: Deathly Dark
- Tanka: Cutting Out Evil
- Tanka: Reflecting Sunlight
- Tanka: Watching Reactions
- Tanka: Like A Crouched Tiger
- Tanka: Putting Head in Sand
- Tanka: Orange Blossom Time
- Tanka: Unconscious Background
- Tanka: Suffering Blind Spot’s
- Tanka: Dying Gasps
- Tanka: Letting Go Of Fear
- Tanka: Eyes of Creator
- Tanka: Miserable Life
- Tanka: Chipmunk
- Tanka: I Am Never Now
- Tanka: Smiling Flower Face
- Tanka: No Morels
- Tanka: Celebrate Today!
- Tanka: Little Blue Nuthatch
- Tanka: Last Walk Through Dark Clouds?
- Tanka: Quietly Seeing
- Tanka: Heart Chakra Open
- Tanka: Thundering Downpour
- Tanka: I wear many masks
- Tanka: Calmly observing
- Tanka: Castles in the air
- Tanka: Catbird
- Five Tanka: Manifestation
- Tanka: Open up your heart
- Tanka: Group of Fellow Drunks
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