Thursday, April 30, 2015

Poem in Your Pocket Day, 2015




Poem in Your Pocket Day
April 30, 2015


The first bowl washed the cobwebs from my mind —
The whole world seemed to sparkle.
A second cleansed my spirit
Like purifying showers of rain,
A third and I was one of the Immortals —
What need now for austerities
To purge our human sorrows?
Worldly people, by going in for wine,
Sadly deceive themselves.
For now I know the Way of Tea is real.
~Chio Jen

2 comments:

  1. I just love your poems in a pocket, including the one you read to me today.

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  2. Great poem! Will have to share it with my worldly wine drinking sister!

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