A still moonlit night / Merton's frog says "Om" / Mine just croaks

Drinking tea, I watch / blackbird tossing autumn leaves / blackbird gobbling worms

Lao Tzu came to introduce me to myself / but I was out, visiting Lao Tzu / so we never met

Walking by myself / For company, a dry leaf / scuttling in the wind

for this a.m. Cold rainy morning / People rush to work, heads bowed, / missing the rainbow

Cold wind. Rain coming. / Then honeysuckle perfume / reminds me, it's spring

Snow, wind, rain, sunshine / buds bursting and birds nesting / tempestuous spring.

Green force thrusting up / The weeds will not be denied / their glory in spring

The old cat teaches / with a contemptuous paw / young mice never learn

shower of elm seeds / glisten in the spring sunshine / gladden my dark heart

Old man winter blows / the maiden spring a farewell / forget-me-not kiss

Grey sky, chilly wind / old man winter embraces / sulking maiden spring

In the stillness there / I found the uncharted you / I had always known

Go deep in silence / beyond your heartbeat to hear / the song of flowers

Pink tinge in the east / glowing white moon in the west / time to begin again

Fallen yellow leaves / shroud darkly the damping earth / womb for spring seedlings