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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Even Pretty Buddhas' - Han Shan of Old Speaks In a Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">How strange is life in old age.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Overwrought by too much thinking<br>all is not yet lost but merely tossed, <br>scrambled in this ramble where etymology<br>is everything. And good boots.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I'm to poetry then and books a-sundry, <br>the old scrolls and tints an attempt to<br>keep a horizon, above it, not under but<br>the dip is soon enough. The worms can<br>correct my spelling and punctuation<br>when I go beneath the willow tips slowly<br>teasing the grasses into laughter.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">White hair nearer now to Yellow Spring, <br>my humor with others is still intact.<br>Even alone I manage to laugh out loud, <br>a victory over enemies and frivolous, <br>ill-tempered gods, all my youth wasted<br>given over to their sly manipulations.<br>Useless now to demand these years<br>back but suffice it now to presently <br>live more boldly, blood hot, with fear <br>of no god yet with respect for all men <br>for both good and bad suffer alike. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And I am one to fight with gods, not men <br>like me longing to roam without explanation, <br>excuse, without rebuke. After so much divine <br>frivolity I am an emptied out fool, but a wise <br>one, I think. I cry out in the night dream <br>remaindered to Silence. I laugh through tears <br>avenging daylight from hostile heaven's <br>envious thieves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Still, a habit now, I shall sit at the<br>Buddhas' feet. Their faces are convincing<br>enough. I shall ignore much evidence to<br>the contrary. Undergarments, even of<br>Buddhas, reveal truth which does not flinch<br>but perhaps may pinch its nose in disgust<br>even of holy stench.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Even so, in spite of meditations long, I am<br>flung further into life's fray though I sway<br>with chants up to the 8 Celestial Flights, <br>my steps light. Long in exile dizzy with<br>the Path, human beauty, brokenness there <br>beside, in all fields shy flowers want<br>our windows and stoops to proudly present<br>themselves. This, only now, but happy, do <br>I discover, and I am old, scents upon the <br>wind down the human lanes where even dogs <br>take pleasure from the air, where children <br>play and narrow water flows petal-by-petal<br>away; night, day, the joyous moon swoons <br>in the liquor of splash upon stones happy <br>to be worn.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There, almost within reach, the blossoming<br>tree brightens between darker bricks to truly<br>dwell. It is for me, a shy son of mists, to see, <br>in spite of big chunks missing, lost, wasted, <br>torn out. To remake the world as it always<br>is, celestial, not as it appears to most, but <br>hard, spirits without shoes still long to be <br>bread to dwell in our finitude. To them, then, <br>I am still a daffodil gay, and a rusty gate where <br>heaven and hell open at the end of the skin road <br>where vague statues sway out of focus lamenting<br>their stone, no river to move them, or against, <br>unable to move at all, <br>for movement is not nothing.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Nothing to lose, this rag of selves, with<br>what glory remains of hungry pockets I skip<br>forward singing, 'La La La, ' a willful don, <br>a lord of nothing-much, poems a'pocket, <br>knowing it's all a shell game but I'm clever<br>having learned something from all the rolled<br>dice - there is more to here than there.<br>Wise now, I always bring a change of draws<br>and a broken piece of mirror to gaze within<br>practicing my smiles.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If questioned at the Heavenly Gate I'll blame you, <br>old ghost meandering still, muttering the old hymns, <br>granting me permission the entrance to boldly storm.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Between what these final breaths remain<br>and the horizon, my fingers still work<br>on behalf of all sentient beings; to plead<br>our case I'll write until the quill is taken <br>from my death hand which even then shall be <br>dirty with righteous indigence, only the gods <br>to blame (they love a good argument anyway) . <br>Then, only then, will I become human through <br>and through, be damned and done the mirror and<br>pockets. A man can curse at the end having<br>earned the right to do so, then a wink and <br>a grin rehearsed. Even pretty Buddhas pretending<br>eternity cannot move by themselves alone, <br>in need of human feet and arms. In this way <br>then we become the same as I too will be born <br>by men to the grave no longer able to move <br>on my own.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a></strong></div>