845. the sun is rising


under the bridge
darkness and light
trading places
*
shadows and light 
the soft stillness of time
passing by
*
the creek is green
under the old stone bridge
how it shimmers




Three poems, three ways of seeing things as it is.

Shunryu Suzuki, reknown for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside of Asia, occasionally used the phrase things as it is when giving talks about reality.