The Taoist

Back on Track

abardstale — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:59:45 +0000

Now I’m back on track
I’ve been lazy for too long
The future looks good

Jet City Improv

abardstale — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:26:28 +0000

Improv is funny
Go see Jet City Improv
It’s the best improv

The Pond

abardstale — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:08:56 +0000

I wrote this set of Haiku over the course of an hour at Ravenna park while sitting at the east pond.

Prehistoric ferns
Their seeds are on the bottom
They look really strange

All these bees nearby
I prefer not to be stung
But I want to write

Dragonflies float by
Some are as big as my hand
They’ve grown since last month

The small pond ripples
One ring grows into many
Kissed by Dragonflies

The first brown leaf falls
It lands on the tall green plants
Summer now meets Fall

My own Zen garden
More perfect than I could make
I rest on a rock

Thirty Girls run by
They are quite the distraction
I’m not complaining

Bumblebees still live
I’m always glad to see that
I wish they lived long

Dragonflies make noise
A crackling kind of sound
Only when Two meet

I enjoy the Rock
Sitting on it hurts my ass
Pillows would be nice

Odd things swim in ponds
Like Beatles with swimming fins
Swimming under there

Bird goes chok chok chok
Another goes sqwah sqwah sqwah
Other birds twitter

The Pond is in shade
Far less Bees to worry me
Likely wont be stung

Now I sit in Dirt
Near a very old Tree stump
I’m comfortable

I am being watched
A Dragonfly peers at me
And it flys away

It is getting cold
I will put on my jacket
There that is better

Fin

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Haiku Number Three

abardstale — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:08:02 +0000

Quit drinking cold Coke

Drink warm herbal tea instead

I would rather not

A Well Frog

abardstale — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:03:26 +0000

There have been numerous times where I have let science detour me from really giving myself to a philosophy or belief. It isn’t proven, how can it be real? Scientists and scholars would already know something to be fact if it was so. In the Tao of Pooh my question is answered satisfactorily:

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Haiku Number Two

abardstale — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:32:00 +0000

Leaves fall to the ground

I look at the naked trees

Summer says goodbye

Haiku Number One

abardstale — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:03:37 +0000

I sit in quiet

The rain outside starts to pour

It’s quiet no more