poetry corner

Riding the Clouds

By Jia Senghe

from his book: Sounds of Water, Poems from the Bamboo Grove, Mantra Press, 2018

a simple bamboo flute my companion for life of how many other things can this be said

five holes and a hollow bamboo stalk a well-fashioned mouthpiece and I’m ready to ride the clouds

all my life I sip tea and cook rice now world turned upside down I sip tea and cook rice

A Short Beautiful Life

By James Gredell

A single precious raindrop falling slowly from a rain cloud in the beautiful vast sky Hence the single beautiful precious rain drop falling coming into life so precious a life Water is Life Now the beautiful rain drop falls lands on a very spiritual person walking down a Daoist Road of Life.