Meditations on Nature | Korean-style Sijo poems

Meditations on Nature | Korean-style Sijo poems

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Raccoon: "Sleepy Morning"
Sleep comes without effort, despite the rising heat of the new day.
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Grey Catbird: "Memory Made"
What memories are waiting to be made and never forgotten?
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbits: "Detour"
A decision must be made: do I do this for me or you?
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Green Heron: "Location, location..."
Where to go from here: perhaps nowhere but the eternal now?
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June 2025

Raccoon: "Grubbing"
A question often forgotten: where has your yesterday gone?
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Great Crested Flycatcher: "Shining"
Flying onwards, pursuing and catching the fleeing darkness
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Black-crowned Night Heron: "Forming"
Emptiness becoming form, and form becoming known: who are you?
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Green Heron: "Searching"
What if the searching itself is the answer to finding peace?
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Black-crowned Night Heron: "Side-eye"
What is Truth seeing as you live your life, morning, noon, and night?
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Black-crowned Night Heron: "Photo Bombed by a Green Heron"
What is it we now seek together: our mutual knowing?
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Stand of Herons: "Great Blue Eight"
How could anyone understand without first knowing the Truth?
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Raccoon: "Searching for Treasure"
Where to find what you are seeking, but by looking within.
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