1105

deer reported
chewing human bones
and buddha shrugged

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May 6, 2017May 6, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, senryuTags: buddha, deer, forensics, haiku, rand, senryu

801

news of mass murder
some sorrows too great
even for stone buddhas

 

June 12, 2016June 12, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, senryuTags: buddha, haiku, killing, murder, Orllando, senryu, sorrow, violence

781

living in a house
of nine small rooms
then stepping outside
into bright sunshine–
our buddha nature

(Paraphrase of Daisaku Ikeda,
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4)

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: buddha, Buddhist, Ikeda, Lotus Sutra, metaphor, sgi-USA, tanka, Ten Worlds 1 Comment

717 R

beggar children make
offerings of mud pies–
Buddha bows

(Revision 2)

 

April 22, 2016April 24, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, senryuTags: buddha, buddhism, haiku, SokaGakkai 4 Comments

703

buddha– anyone
who wakes up
and smells the karma

April 16, 2016April 18, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, haiku, Nam myoho renge kyo, Nichiren, poem, poems, poetry, SenryuTags: buddha, haiku, senryu

702

beggar children bow
offer mud pies to buddha
who bows back

April 16, 2016April 18, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, poem, poems, poetry, SenryuTags: buddha, buddhism, haiku, mudpie, senryu, SGI, Soka Gakkai

507

no saints nor angels
guffawed or gave a chuckle
only buddhas laugh

六十六
(rewrite)

January 13, 2016January 18, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, Rokuju Roku, senyruTags: buddha, Buddhist, haiku, humor, laughing Buddha, religion, senryu

399

buddha statue sits
facing Highway 101
torrents of folly

  

from Google Earth

September 18, 2015September 19, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Northern California, poem, poetry, senyruTags: buddha, haiku, highway 101, Redwood City, traffic

Sutra

All around and flowing within us
The heart’s blood of waking buddhas
Who open their eyes laughing
Having dreamt we are glasses of water
Deep in wondrous, rhythmic seas.

September 4, 2014 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, life, Life-Death, Metaphysics, Philosophy, poetryTags: buddha, buddhism, life, Lotus Sutra, Nichiren