Dirty Zen: Poetry by Ikkyū

clouds endless clouds climbing beyond
ask nothing from words on a page

poems should come from bare ground
night falling on night falling on black landscape

sometimes all I am is a dark emptiness
that I can’t hide in the sleeves of my own robes

nobody understands why we do what we do
this cup of sake does

a woman is enlightenment when you’re with her and the red
thread
of both your passions flares inside you and you see

I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst
and blossom
now that I have you I’ll never forget what I owe you

her mouth played with my cock
the way a cloud plays with the sky

she’d play with it almost anywhere day and night
touch it with the deepest part of herself

and the night inside you rocking
smelling the odor of your thighs is everything

for us no difference between reading eating singing
making love not one thing or the other

mirror facing a mirror
nowhere else

only one koan matters
you

you stand inside me naked infinite love
the dawn bell rips my dreaming heart

I think of your death I think of our touching
my head quiet in your lap

this hungry monk chanting by lamplight is Buddha
and he still thinks of you

why is it all so beautiful this fake dream
this craziness
why?

Music: Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On remixed from the 2005 album Motown Remixed

Poetry: Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyū 15th Century Zen Master Versions by Stephen Berg

Photo: Vaiden & Will’s Wedding - Phoenix, AZ - November 25, 2006

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