Painting by Rene Magritte " The Therapist"
And now a funny song about Andy Warhol by David Bowie from his album Hunky Dory:
Haiku & Zen Poems
by Gordon Coombes
at night
the blue glow of TV screens
alive in empty houses-
computers full of life
order servants about-
a continuous humming
the computer dreams
mumbles to itself half-awake-
waves of words
bits & pieces of ourselves
sent over the internet
falling on deaf ears-
our cries of despair & hope
scattered shattered into fragmented
binary codes-
these poems
the Great Master says
are just a distraction-
the Great Master says
the essence of Zen
is poetry-
one hand clapping
silence answers
the Great Master rises at dawn-
Amazed by tiny green emeralds glowing
in darkness droplets of bile
running through dying fingers-
lacking skillful means
lacking patience
east & west collide-
sad to say sad to see
transplanted Lotus dying
the Buddha waits patiently-
the teacher dies of loneliness
waiting for students
who have gone back to sleep-
the student wastes away waiting
returns to his world of delusions
no sign of a compassionate teacher-
no sign of a compassionate teacher
the student returns to a world
of vague shadows & hazy dreams-
Take care,
GORD.
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