Monday, February 29, 2016

Koon Woon ----- Notes to myself (poem)




Notes to myself, good in any case


Shorten the bad memories to lengthen your life
Let embers of love and fire softly die
Let not the past escape its perimeter
So that today’s spring rain signifies spring

Be you a frog then patrol the swamp
Be you a lotus then cover the pond
Suffered you a bad night here comes dawn
Make this a habit to always look beyond

Surely as there are concentric rings to Hell
Beyond Heaven there are innumerable heavens more
Let not your desires be trapped on earth
Let go all and as a dragon heavenward soar

7 comments:

  1. Koon, I love this poem! It is stunning in its beauty. Thank you for writing it.

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  2. Thank you, Lenora. I had an extra day this year to write it.

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  3. thank you for this charming leap year poem.

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  5. Thank you so much George. Hope your heart's desires take a great leap in 2016!

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  6. I love these lines! "Be you a frog then patrol the swamp
    Be you a lotus then cover the pond"
    Really nice, Koon

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    1. Thank you, Julie. We had a lotus pond in our village in China when I was a child.

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