Sangha Expressions: Three Poems by Jian Zhi Peter
By Jian Zhi Peter Tolly, ZRS Board Secretary, excerpted from the October 2018 ZRS newsletter
Rumination
A sheer torrent
my need for story:
I can dredge for days
but was dead
in the flow
from the start
* * *
Dhyana
The unbeknownst pregnancy
of my angst giving birth to this
synthesis upon synthesis
* * *
Form & Emptiness
A flame clinging to a wick, my personality
flickers out in a moment of focus.
The people who entered the zendo
in stillness become cold candles
no different from dust-laden clutter
in an undisturbed attic—just dust actually
the indistinct shift of an endless dessert
nameless, faceless, on fire
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