A load of Zen Haiku

 

combatting normality zen

 

 

'The living wash in vain.' - Samuel Beckett zen haik by anthony weir

 

Friendless and magnificent
above McDonald’s:
the Harvest Moon.

 
Pond beneath a moonless sky:
Start and finish of everything.

Every year the leaves
are deported by the wind
to the camps of rot.

 
Its last blood-red leaves gone
how stiff the creeper
on the graveyard wall.

en haik by anthony weir  
Hoar-frost on the hair
upon the hot chests of the
[magic] mushroom gatherers.

 
In my autumn groin
mist and rain and river
are indistinguishable.

Dead tree slanting athwart the stream:
Ivy-stems entwine my life.

  en haik by anthony weir
After the storm, apples pass
from wasps to slugs to me.

 
Another robin in my mousetrap:
few of us fail to give humanity
a bad name.

Wagtail on the roof:
the wise man combs his beard
with a fork.

The weather forecast.
Millennia of wind and rain
- and now people shave.

Snail-trails in frost:
‘A painter should study
the stains on walls.’

 
The crotch of a winter birch
love, like the Unicorn
is conceived here.

The skin of the wino
is a beautiful silk palace for lice.

Locked ward
and sunless winter day:
Home is where the mind is.

The moon in a veil
as if it had coldly evolved an ego.

en haik by anthony weir
Digging: a fine red worm.
Wisdom: to see everything
as from the grave.

Thinking about my death
I enthusiastically clean out
the septic tank.  

Dogshit on pavements:
the unconscious calligraphy
of prisoners.

Rotting leaves
lie on each other lovingly
in hecatombs.

 
Morning. My erection
does not belie regret
at my father’s.

The day in silence.
At night the telephone rings.
It’s a wrong number.

Between life and death
I am always hoping to climb
Out of myself.

Winter sunlight:
trying to pull my shadow
out of the shade...

Water on the knee…
Water on the brain…and now
Water on the moon!

Our lives intertwined,
my dog and I check up on
each other’s fæces.

 
Community of luxury:
I drink the wine
while my dog chews the cork.

en haik by anthony weir  
Quiet rain. My dog expresses
so much silently – why must we
make so much noise ?

 
Every night, before
we go to bed – a brief
strip-show for my dog.

 
Ice on a puddle:
the brittle transience of wisdom.

en haik by anthony weir

Zen of orgasm:
the not-having is sexier
than the having.

‘Soul’ is integrity.
Thus few humans – but all
animals – have souls.

A haiku: so what ?
So many haiku –
So what ?

 
Headless chicken –
creatures just as maimed
are masters of the world.

A puddle:
It took me fifty years to realise
how shallow people are.

  en haik by anthony weir
Moon –those who walked over you
are half in darkness
half in blinding light.

 
Full moon naked
above the naked tree
O for a naked mind!

A piss before bed
looking up at the night's bright
navel in the sky.

Sa vieille maison;
le loup-garou derrière
arrosant une Pensée.

I have no nationality
but not-being
and not being without.

On a foggy day
you can imagine mountains
not so far away.

 

 The silence between wars:
The science that is false.

en haik by anthony weir
Miru tokoro . Places to see.
Kita michi wa The road I came
Hakkiri chigairu . Is clearly different.

Cobwebs in fog.
I can’t tell my end from my beginning.

Relentless blue skies:
the smug sameness of
hundreds of haikai.

I met a man who claimed
to like my poetry.
I tore it up.

en haik by anthony weir

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