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Karen Lewis

Buddha's Garden


We don't believe
in dragons anymore,
Zen points mind
toward a garden.
Walk the circumference
letting stone speak
clear to heart.
Sand will sing
seven toned scales
birthing metaphysical wisdom.
Difference permits relationship:
asymmetry allows symmetry,
is reciprocal gold.
Value the spaces,
they breath zazen,
air in/air out.
Power is lonely
free of stability.
In mountain storm
poet Muso sits,
an isosceles flower,
mirroring original face,
a Buddhist dragon,
master of endlessness.



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