846. short story on a sunny day


driving home
stopping at the waters edge
to gaze at the geese
*
canadian geese 
swimming on the green lake
100 of them
*
on the shore
face to face the geese and i 
are one
*
one goose
staring at me hesitates
a moment…




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.








844. riddle #1



everybody up!
here comes the sun, get up!
let’s go!
*
buk-buk bawk
cluck-cluk cluk-chirp chirp-chirp
buk-bawk bawk-bawk
*
chik-chik chou-chou 
ra- ta- ta- to- touille….go!
go eagles!


 

Here’s the riddle:  

Where do eggplants come from?

CHICKENPLANTS!

(Today is game day for the Philadelphia Eagles—Go Eagles!)