Ponderable and poem for Friday, November 27, 2009
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Alan Harris
Nov 27, 2009, 12:46:16 AM11/27/09
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If contentment is enlightenment, then a cow is Buddha.
My Cow, My Guru
My brown cow
lives in the now.
How?
Nohow.
Quantity and time and hay slide
through her unnoticed. She
doesn't count her stomachs
or her breaths or her days.
She seeks no acupuncture
treatments, nor does she
brew herbal teas.
Being the best she can be
holds no interest for her as
she grazingly meditates with
slow-moving hooves and jaws
over a grassy pasture.
Her Buddhic eyes see
out and in all the way.
My cow knows an old, old mantra
that she neither flaunts nor hides--
when the world needs a moo,
she gives it one.
As her swishing tail
with Zen precision
scatters a bunch of flies
like unwelcome thoughts,
my brown cow's gaze is
inly intimating to me,
"No how is there to now."
lives in the now.
How?
Nohow.
Quantity and time and hay slide
through her unnoticed. She
doesn't count her stomachs
or her breaths or her days.
She seeks no acupuncture
treatments, nor does she
brew herbal teas.
Being the best she can be
holds no interest for her as
she grazingly meditates with
slow-moving hooves and jaws
over a grassy pasture.
Her Buddhic eyes see
out and in all the way.
My cow knows an old, old mantra
that she neither flaunts nor hides--
when the world needs a moo,
she gives it one.
As her swishing tail
with Zen precision
scatters a bunch of flies
like unwelcome thoughts,
my brown cow's gaze is
inly intimating to me,
"No how is there to now."
*******
Alan Harris
You're invited to view two YouTube videos by Ine Braat based on my poems: "Mother's Secret," "Two Windows," and "Seeking until Found."
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