Friday, April 8, 2011

the venn zen maxim

deep reverie
slow pipe pulls
smoke thoughts
in bare branches:

more venn
than zen

always

this life

these rusty rhythms

fill your steel toes:
boot circle breaker


the tired monk

12 comments:

  1. i was just talking to robert about how we are born with myths such as deservedness/rights/entitlement, immortality, significance, happiness, luxury, and how we have to work at dispelling these myths over and over again, person after person. these rusty rhythms!

    xo
    erin

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  2. Love the "deep reverie, slow pipe pulls"........deep reflection this morning, Ollie.

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  3. This is Zen enough for me...like the effect the words create in the mind.

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  4. I love how you worked the juxtaposition of smoky thoughts ascending to the treetops and the steel toes of practicality.

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  5. I like the notion of venn vs zen - where the idea of finding the common ground sits where the circles intersect.

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  6. Smokey thoughts rise to heaven...

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  7. Old Ollie,

    I sense deep contemplation amongst the rising rings of smoke!

    Best Regards, Eileen

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  8. At least the boot was steel toed and not hobnailed. Good one Ollie!

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  9. At least the boot was a steel toe and not a hobnail.

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  10. ooooh makin me think first off in the morning! heh

    really like this: "smoke thoughts
    in bare branches"

    :)

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  11. fun flow.


    Invite you to share your poetry with our poetry potluck today,
    Random poems, poems unrelated to our theme are welcome!

    Hope to see you in.
    Bless your talent.
    Cheers.
    xxx

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