Haiku Tag

General flatness!
You mock Columbus in this!
Perceive it – wisely!
:laughing: :banana-dance:
I know you’re enjoying this thread!

Perceive it - wisely!
Bigger and bigger it gets.
This calls for action.

This calls for action.
Ah, but then perchance – wu wei?
The leaf or the tree?

The leaf or the tree
the forest or the species
groupings ex-act thought

Groupings ex-act thought.
X-Acto taxonomy.
Fingertips redden.

Fingertips redden.
Pomegranates – Eve’s delight!
Eden’s Ruby seeds!

Eden’s Ruby seeds
Like earrings sparkling so bright,
Tempt intelligence

Tempt intelligence.
Reflect the ocean’s vastness
Mirror what is real!

Those pomegranate seeds are
brilliantly beautiful -ruby-like in the light.

Mirror what is real!
As if reality weren’t
Itself a mirror.

Itself a mirror,
the silver surface cannot
reflect on itself (?)

Reflect on itself.
Lost in translation, Other
Deflections occur.

Itself a mirror.
Once more for me to ponder!
Trees – ah, hidden Self!!

“Trees - ah, hidden Self!!”
Myself a tree? Tree a self?
Chainsaw of prajna.

Chainsaw of Prahna.
Cutting chords in refuge Mounts…
Let peace descend again!

Let peace descend again -
one syllable too many -
on your speech, depends.

:stuck_out_tongue:

On your speech, depends.
Life may dangle by a thread!
Take care… sharpened sword!!!

To rectify…
Let peace descend Now. :slight_smile:

:astonished: … I call splivage on arc :stuck_out_tongue: ((derailed a couple up, but anon was too nice a buddhist to call her out :angry: (though he did anticipate it with “deflections occur” =D> ) )))

(“splivage”, from ]“zoom, shwartz, profigliano,” in case that wasn’t clear)

But I’ll forego my typically fascist tendencies and let it go this time. O:)

On your speech depends
the broken tongue spoken in
starts shallowly heard

#-o crap, I call splivage on myself.

Try that again:

Take care… sharpened sword
razing tongue blunt as a thumb:
pollice verso!

Pollice verso!
Give away the victory
Solves the equation

Solves the equation,
simply changes our problems.
Time for work again.