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A Sutra For A Seeker by Suchoon Mo

you seek enlightenment
you want wisdom
so you do all kinds of thing

such as

meditating
chanting
jumping into water
staring at a wall
chasing your own shadow
talking to a tree
farting in the water
barking at the moon

but you already know
flowers bloom in the cemetery
where the corpses decay
and snow flakes fall in winter
like cherry blossoms in spring

Bio: He is a Korean War veteran and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado where he writes poetry and composes music.   His poems and orchestral music appeared in Mad Hatters Review, Unlikely 2.0, The Adroitly Placed Word, Eleventh Transmission, The Beat, Strange Road, Sage Of Consciousness, epiphany, Word Riot, Round Table Review, Snakeskin, Dissident Editions, and others.