hot water
straight from the wall
ON THE SECOND FLOOR

#Poetry #Senryu
#Stoicism #VanLife

Living in a van really makes you appreciate the amenities of a house.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Two Roads Diverged in The Woods, and the #AmericanPoet took the road less travelled by. You can buy the broadsheet from my brother-in-law for two shillings!

#TownCrierASongOrPoem
#HashtagGames #AmericanPoetry #RobertFrost #Poetry #AmericanLiterature #Literature #PoetryReading #Presentation #Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esjTgR2W2E

endure thoughts
bombarding the mind
like hailstorm

or

embrace thoughts
besprinkling the mind
like raindrops

attachment or equanimity

#Poetry #Senryu
#Wisdom #Philosophy #Buddhism
#Mindfulness #Equanimity #Attachment

Easier said than done.
Beginner's mind becomes a lot more difficult after the first hit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin

in introspection--
forgetting the outside world
ends in misery.

#Poetry #Senryu

if you can only be
at peace, when your mind is calm
you will be restless
until your enlightenment
which may never come

#Poetry #Tanka
#Wisdom #Philosophy #Buddhism
#Mindfulness

a mind wired
to interrogate the world
facing emptiness

#Poetry #Senryu
#Wisdom #Philosophy #Buddhism
#Mindfulness #Emptiness

Casually dismissing the question for the meaning of life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow?wprov=sfla1

We are not metadata, symptoms, demographics, or classifications. 
We are not how much we produce or consume. 
We are not parts or liabilities on your balance sheet and holder notifications.
We are not your property and we will wake up soon.

#capitalism #eattherich