Single Stone Zen Sangha

Related Poetry, Asian and Western

Kobayashi Issa, Haiku

The little butterfly moves as though ... ...

Ryôkan

Other than those who hear emptiness, who will capture this rare sound? ...

Ebenezer Scrooge (Charles Dickens), from A Christmas Carol

I don’t know anything I never did know anything But now I know that I don’t know So early in the morning! ...

T. S. Eliot

... at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. ...

Matsuo Bashô, Haiku

Harvest moon; Around the pond I wander And the night's already gone. ...