I WAS A ZEN MASTER; HE WAS A SUICIDE

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Open Poetry #37

I WAS A ZEN MASTER; HE WAS A SUICIDE

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since 2006-04-29

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0 posted 2006-05-19 11:31 PM

I WAS A ZEN MASTER; HE WAS A SUICIDE

night,
Yonge Street,
a doorway;
in his hand there is a rose.

night,
Yonge Street,
a doorway;
on his wrist there is a slash.

but Yonge Street is a rosary of suicides;
it removes me just like some eastern prayer;
and though I rip my tee shirt
and bind the rose to the slash,
it's just as true
I wasn't even there.

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

1 posted 2006-05-20 12:05 PM

Yet again - DAMN!

A deep, powerful, scathing write....There's much here, that one should re-read it a few times to find greater meaning previously missed between the lines. I only wish that I could write more like you...

As mentioned before, you are fast becoming one of my favourites here, in fact, you remind me of a poet who used to post here - "Aenimal" (Raphael Giuffrida)....Your styles, brilliance and raw expression are so much alike. I admired him and thus compare you to him as the highest compliment

"Yonge Street?" As in Toronto? Obviously you're Canadian - LOL So that's why you're so intelligent, huh?!

Perhaps next life you'll be a woman - and be perfect

Melissa~

Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world!

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2 posted 2006-05-20 12:13 PM

Melissa, perhaps I was a woman in a past life.

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