Friday Night Poetry Slam

THEME: Totality's Witness

And King Cobra hasn't left you
without a Dope Beat to step to (thanks fullassin9)

Our own u/surupamaerl2 (under the pen name P. E. Stonegather) has released a new book of the sermons and poetry of Rujing. To celebrate this release, I have taken a few videos of me reading passages from this text while hiking around in the mountains where I live. These will be the poetry slam themes for the next few weeks (also, a tip of the hat to u/lin_seed who was my inspiration for this video style)

Share your zen poetry below. The theme is merely a suggestion.

Rujing:

Then the Master arrived before the Dharma Seat, and picking up his notes said,

The tip of the brush is bald, with not even a single hair—
when it comes to it, there are few who set things in good order.

Amid the complete silence, he raised the notes again and said,

See the point where the rising winds and clouds issue their command—
this thunderclap splashes the ink that shakes the guide rope of the lineage.
Have you not come to witness the totality?
Just don’t incline your ears.

When requested to expand on his raising his notes, he said,

Gautama’s crown of bone, the Master’s Eye—
getting two faces on one die;
shaking jade, gold sounds.

𓆏 Toad's 蟾蜍Verse 𓆏

Speak without words
Act without verbs
Hear what's unheard
Split one into thirds
Allow the absurd
Unpeg the boards
Disarm the guards
The poor become lords
Witness totality
Transcend reality
Unmoor from gravity
Don’t make up that for me
Thunderclap flashes
Worlds in eye lashes
The waterfall splashes
Sun burning gasses
He sleeps while he thrashes
A Phoenix from ashes
Ink spills fire across the universe

(I am hoping to record vocals over the beat, but it's been too loud today. Maybe later.)

Submitted February 18, 2023 at 05:03AM by jungle_toad https://ift.tt/hCf7L6r