FINAL WINTER SNOWFALL
Final winter snowfall. In Zen the masters often write poems at or near their death. They often involve winter images coinciding with the "winter" of our life cycle. While I'm [...]
DEATH, LIFE, WINTER, SHADOW
In the dark of winter we feel a kind of death. Be not afraid. ~~Man controls the trees by axe, hatchet, and saw. Yet, if man fails to replant new seedlings the forest dies. Wi [...]
EARTH, WINTER, DARKNESS
Winter is the time of darkness, and is the element earth. Earth is our mother, our caregiver, nourishing and loving. Earth is variable--it is fertile as the field then as arid [...]