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Smokey The Bear Sutra

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  • zenmonk_genryuzenmonk_genryu
    edited February 2006
    Wonderful stuff. I really like Gary Snyder. Thank you BF.
  • KnitwitchKnitwitch
    edited February 2006
    I loved it but I am a sucker for Smokey the Bear ever since I got given a book about him when I was about 6. and I didn't understand half that sutra so I looked at the pictures!
  • SatoriSatori
    edited February 2006
    I love Gary Snyder.

    Gary Snyder:

    http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=GarySnyder

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    'Riprap' by Gary Snyder

    Lay down these words
    Before your mind like rocks.
    placed solid, by hands
    In choice of place, set
    Before the body of the mind
    in space and time:
    Solidity of bark, leaf or wall
    riprap of things:
    Cobble of milky way,
    straying planets,
    These poems, people,
    lost ponies with
    Dragging saddles --
    and rocky sure-foot trails.
    The worlds like an endless
    four-dimensional
    Game of Go.
    ants and pebbles
    In the thin loam, each rock a word
    a creek-washed stone
    Granite: ingrained
    with torment of fire and weight
    Crystal and sediment linked hot
    all change, in thoughts,
    As well as things.
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