TASWG assignment: write four ‘Zen-style’ poems.
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Shafts of sunlight
Break through leaden clouds
Onto sparkling water
Gently rippling to the horizon.
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Two butterflies flying high above trees
Like tiny yellow kites
Drifting far apart
Coming together miraculously
To kiss again.
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Under the small wooden bridge
Beneath wide green lily pads
In cool silent depths
Glide golden carp.
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The roaring sun
Bakes shimmering sand
A beetle emerges from nowhere
Senses the heat
And vanishes.
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