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A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh
“Take my hand.
We will walk.
“We will only walk.
We will enjoy our walk
without thinking of arriving anywhere.
Walk peacefully.
Walk happily.
Our walk is a peace walk.
Our walk is a happiness walk.
Then we learn
that there is no peace walk;
that peace is the walk;
that there is no happiness walk;
that happiness is the walk.
We walk for ourselves.
We walk for everyone
always hand in hand.
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom under our feet.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Print on Earth your love and happiness.
Earth will be safe
when we feel in us enough safety.”
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This arrived from my friend. (You may remember him from http://bennaga.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/fractal-chameleons/.) I wanted to share it with you also.
The Zen Of Haiku
THE ZEN OF HAIKU
I wrote, now you read
Feel the moment and we are
One sizeless being
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Reposted from “The Book Of Guff”
North Muskham
NORTH MUSKHAM
In the graveyard
The church clock
Struck four times
Rooks cawed from the trees
A perfect stranger wished me good day
And set me on the right road
Men
Relaying the road
As I passed the lorry
I heard one urinate
The bunting of straw on the bushes
Must have fallen from an overladen haytruck …
Time Lapses
TIME LAPSES
Time lapses
Into emptiness
Hung in webbing of
Indefinable echoes
Between moon phases
Again
It’s now
Alone
Heart To Heart
HEART TO HEART
Now your time comes
Now you can speak
Be heard
Believed
Unjudged
Now the tears come
So long withheld
Let go
Release
Healing
Gratitude
GRATITUDE
I am striving
To be grateful
For everything
And everything else
I return daily
To see
If it is still here
And it is
And it is enough
Thank you
For everything
And everything else
A Breath Of Summer
This is a New Year’s gift. Probably especially appropriate for those of us who are in the middle of a Northern Hemispheric Winter and may in need of some warmth and comfort. This is a special favourite of mine, sadly far too little known or appreciated. And even if it’s warm and Summery where you are, it’s still a very beautiful piece of music to drift away on.
Have a wonderful 2012 and thanks for frequenting my e-log. 
A Better World
A BETTER WORLD
What would make the world
A better place right now?
Simply that there might be
For each and every individual
A moment of internal peace and understanding
That was not fleeting but endured
And endured and endured and became
For each and every individual
An internal world of eternal peace and understanding
In which to dwell and share
Then we would wish to work tirelessly
To transform the way we think, speak and act
Till each and every individual lives
In an external world also
Of eternal peace and understanding
That is a thousand miles from here
But as we already know quite well
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step
