i write poetry about zen buddhism, addictions, and experience. what more is there to say?
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My poetry is available in book form at http://www.lulu.com/zazen.
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johntaiyu's Works

Poetry	2009-08-01	Innocence
Poetry	2009-06-09	Joy Life Cadence
Poetry	2009-02-09	for the ride home
Poetry	2008-09-11	Of You
Poetry	2008-07-08	My Perfect Wilderness
Poetry	2008-06-10	hubris
Poetry	2008-05-29	Starlings
Poetry	2008-05-26	The Right To Be a Nigger
Poetry	2008-05-19	Is In Dreams
Poetry	2008-05-19	Festooned Maypole
Poetry	2008-05-19	So There I Sat
Poetry	2008-01-05	Not All It Was
Poetry	2008-01-03	The Sense That Washes Me Away
Poetry	2007-12-10	What There Is
Poetry	2007-12-10	In The Pivot of Nothingness
Poetry	2007-12-10	Meant to Be
Poetry	2007-12-07	Who I Am Become Today
Poetry	2007-12-06	Comet
Poetry	2007-11-30	Back in the Day
Poetry	2007-11-30	Dry Drunk
Poetry	2007-11-24	Unmended Hearts
Poetry	2007-11-23	The Pain That Comes
Poetry	2007-11-12	Something's Bound To Happen
Poetry	2007-11-12	Feeling Sorry For Myself
Poetry	2007-10-31	No One Wants To Know
Poetry	2007-10-31	How Much Drunk We’d Got
Poetry	2007-10-31	Jacked
Poetry	2007-10-31	My Stupid Stupid Heart
Poetry	2007-09-19	All Good Stories
Poetry	2007-08-28	Where the Weeds End
Poetry	2007-08-02	It Sought
Poetry	2007-07-19	before the me
Poetry	2007-07-19	Canada
Poetry	2007-07-02	The Only Universe I have Ever Known
Poetry	2007-06-25	Silver Dharma Moon
Poetry	2007-06-20	Literal Nirvana
Poetry	2007-06-13	Photographs
Poetry	2007-05-27	Open Heart
Poetry	2007-05-24	A Smooth Soft Belly
Poetry	2007-05-23	Run for Cigarettes
Poetry	2007-05-15	one last time
Poetry	2007-05-08	Tall Cows
Poetry	2007-05-08	Who
Poetry	2007-04-23	Hero
Poetry	2007-04-14	Corner
Poetry	2007-04-10	Running From Ghosts
Poetry	2007-04-10	Grist
Poetry	2007-04-01	Dogstars and the Sea
Poetry	2007-03-29	Inch or Two
Poetry	2007-03-21	Shuffle
Poetry	2007-03-16	Cities of the Gods
Poetry	2007-03-15	The Old Chair
Poetry	2007-03-15	With Love
Poetry	2007-03-09	Perfect Sleep
Poetry	2007-03-02	Our Children of Gallipoli
Poetry	2007-02-26	Ice Storm
Poetry	2007-02-17	it's
Poetry	2007-02-17	what it is
Poetry	2007-02-05	Easy
Poetry	2007-02-05	The Itch and the Need to Scratch
Poetry	2007-01-28	Where the Universe Makes Its Home
Poetry	2007-01-28	No Worse Nor Better
Poetry	2007-01-22	Many Doored House
Poetry	2007-01-18	The Last Run
Poetry	2007-01-16	the path
Poetry	2007-01-04	The Horses
Poetry	2006-12-21	This is the Prayer
Poetry	2006-12-20	So it becomes you
Poetry	2006-12-13	Recipe
Poetry	2006-11-28	Oceans
Poetry	2006-11-23	Uniforms
Poetry	2006-11-23	Good Enough For Now
Poetry	2006-11-04	When the Water Came
Poetry	2006-11-03	An Instance Of Compassion
Poetry	2006-10-28	Plague
Poetry	2006-10-13	The Days of Plums and Wrestling
Poetry	2006-10-06	Not in the Boat
Poetry	2006-09-21	Trouble
Poetry	2006-09-20	The Big It
Poetry	2006-09-14	Everything Else Was Gorgeous Deep Royal Blue
Poetry	2006-09-10	stooped shoulders
Poetry	2006-09-10	Seekers
Poetry	2006-09-01	Strange Beliefs
Poetry	2006-08-23	The Cushion and the Bell
Poetry	2006-07-24	Crickets
Poetry	2006-07-18	Meatball
Poetry	2006-07-11	Granite Creek
Poetry	2006-07-11	Hearts Sedated
Poetry	2006-07-06	Not a Separate Thing Either
Poetry	2006-06-27	The Karma of Sobriety
Poetry	2006-06-24	Ryumon Road
Poetry	2006-06-23	Koan
Poetry	2006-06-21	A Really Bad Joke
Poetry	2006-06-12	Tomorrow
Poetry	2006-06-12	A Sharp Stick
Poetry	2006-06-01	The Last Exit Before Hell
Poetry	2006-05-30	The Gut Thought
Poetry	2006-05-24	Infestation
Poetry	2006-05-17	A Life Perhaps Not Squandered
Poetry	2006-05-15	Two Peas
Poetry	2006-05-12	When the Shit Ain't Broke
Poetry	2006-05-11	I don't do love so well anymore
Poetry	2006-05-04	Memories
Poetry	2006-04-26	The Stuff That Mixes
Poetry	2006-04-24	The Voices of Children
Poetry	2006-04-18	Two Block Radius
Poetry	2006-04-17	Still Loving You, II
Poetry	2006-04-10	The One Who Owns the Deer
Poetry	2006-04-06	River Gulls
Poetry	2006-04-06	The Ground Rushing Up
Poetry	2006-03-30	Black Girls Don't Suck Dick
Poetry	2006-03-26	Kathy
Poetry	2006-03-24	21 Years
Poetry	2006-03-20	Silence
Poetry	2006-03-19	There was Nothing
Poetry	2006-03-18	Pictures and Poetry
Poetry	2006-03-13	The Really Old Bushmills
Poetry	2006-03-13	The Buzz It Gave
Poetry	2006-03-13	Back When We Were Innocent
Poetry	2006-03-11	Lifer
Poetry	2006-03-09	What We Take for Real
Poetry	2006-03-05	in the dark pit of self pity and loathing
Poetry	2006-03-02	In Zen
Poetry	2006-02-14	An old friend Shelly
Poetry	2006-02-14	Self Importance
Poetry	2006-02-13	Monastery II
Poetry	2006-02-11	Historically Speaking of Love
Poetry	2006-02-11	how sick he was
Poetry	2006-02-07	Old Dan
Poetry	2006-02-05	Bad Actor
Poetry	2006-02-05	The Academic Life
Poetry	2006-02-02	The Grinding Down
Poetry	2006-01-31	Them New Pills
Poetry	2006-01-30	We Thought He Was Dead
Poetry	2006-01-28	The Slipping Away
Poetry	2006-01-26	Or Rather
Poetry	2006-01-26	Beef Tacos
Poetry	2006-01-25	Sleepwalkers
Poetry	2006-01-25	That Sweet Sweaty Stink
Poetry (Spiritual)	2006-01-24	This Life
Poetry	2006-01-23	I knew her from the bars
Poetry (Personal)	2006-01-23	Regarding the Nature of My Practice
Poetry (Personal)	2006-01-20	The Queen of the World
Poetry (Reflective)	2006-01-19	Dead Brothers
Poetry	2006-01-17	Mexico
Poetry	2006-01-17	Something about motorcycles
Poetry	2006-01-16	Lost Love
Poetry	2006-01-13	The Glimpse
Poetry (Abuse)	2006-01-13	Carcass Bones
Poetry (Philosophical)	2006-01-12	Red
Poetry (Non-Fiction)	2006-01-12	Walter

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