#tanka – The Zen Poetic

Conscious Subconscious

Vivid lucid dreams

Aware of unawareness

Bring light to shadows

Take control of your vision

The mind director

Inside the silence 

Just choose what you want to think 

Jump in the cockpit

Be the pilot of your mind

Watch yourself flying the plane

Agitated cat

Hairs stand on end from the threat

It's ready to pounce

Suspicious looking object

Turns out to be a tissue

Start the day with this

Interpretive dance routine

Blend art with your life

Vice versa, fight inertia

The fancy dress funeral

From scratch a blank slate 

Refresh and rejuvenate 

Create then destroy

Vice versa, repeat cycle

Decease all attachments

Mind and body dies

Energy is recycled 

Returns to the source 

Psychedelic dreams alive

Consciousness always awake

Broken dreams of youth

Desires that were not met then

Carries pain today

Except and forgive the want

Move on, embrace the present