(1) A few Old Favorites:
Poetic Glimpses
Into the Divine Nature
Of Being Aware.
A Thousand Haiku
All reflecting different
Facets of One Truth.
Smart bombs to target
Deeply embedded patterns
Of self-centered thought.
***
Infinite rays shine,
Blazing from One Central Sun, Universal Light.
Centered in the One
Abiding in the Balance
Mindful of the Light.
Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
One with the Father.
***
This Holy Moment
Awareness Knows Sensation
Consciousness is Born.
I Am Awareness
Embodied as a Sense of
Radiant Presence.
I Love Being This
Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,
As the Child I Am.
***
Abiding as This
Felt Sense of Aware Presence
Of Being I Am.
Resting in Presence
As the Child of God I Am
One with the Father.
"Christ in You" is the
Self-Witnessing Presence of
The Father of All.
***
Playful old puppies
She frolics, he gently paws –
Love in furry coats.
A basement cricket
Competing with my day dream
Who is more alive?
Banging pots and pans
Startle my thoughtful repose
Another wake-up call.
***
A fatal case of
Mistaken identity
This being human.
Thinking of myself
In relative terms I Am
Subject to objects.
My soulful anguish
Mid-wife to Divine Glory
Cosmic Labor pains.
***
The question is not
Whether there is a God, but
Who’s playing the role.
Any god that is
Other than I Am is not
An Absolute One.
Faith in doctrine is
Worshipping conceptual
Graven images.
***
Jesus died to save
Us all from our delusion
Of self-existence.
[Rich Note:
This Holy Instant
Awareness (Father)
Knows Sensation (Mother)
Consciousness (Child)
is Born.]
(2) Something included in the 2006 book's introduction on the subject of haiku:
"As to why a collection of haiku was chosen as the first offering in the series, the author would suggest that haiku has an unparallel potential to overcome the loss of fidelity that normally occurs when relative words and thoughts are used to convey non-relative insights. As such, haiku has a remarkable capacity to evoke direct experiential understanding without the mental noise linguistic communication normally entails. Seen in this light, haiku might be rightly characterized as a kind of “intellectual judo,” in which a simple arrangement of words is used to throw the thinker beyond thought and occasion direct insight."
[Rich Note: This new arrangement (reprise) of some old and new favorites from the archives was triggered by the following kind comment by Friend Gale Sanyu Gibbson and my response:
Gale: "Richard F Hay what is the highest level of haiku writing? Cuz you're a black belt in haiku writing! :-)"
Rich: "Been attempting to capture and distill insights in this form of haiku (a friend once coined the term "hay-ku," which is used in the blog title) for 18 years now and it pretty much "happens of itself" at this point -- but you really shouldn't encourage me, Gale -- lol."
Re:..(the above reprise). ]
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