Friday Night Zen Poetry Slam: Nothing to attain and yet to be here for a while

https://www.reddit.com/r/zenbuddhism/comments/1i3mq1e/friday_night_zen_poetry_slam_nothing_to_attain/

created by 2bitmoment on 17/01/2025 at 18:11 UTC*

16 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)

And the end of the road

maybe there’s nothing attained

and no one to blame

nothing to do

nowhere to go

To nurse a coffee

listen to danceable songs

read poems a bit

Be here for a while

Set aside all the negations

all the talk and thought

The theme, you can tell,

if you have been here before,

just a suggestion

Write a poem, or

read, think, pause, the choice is yours

Games are for playing

But not all folks are players

Comments

Comment by DancesWithTheVoles at 18/01/2025 at 00:30 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Zazenkai, Second Day, Sunrise 2/18/2023

(dukkha) All This Dharma, All This Sangha, ALL THIS BUDDHA (-nature?)!

Still, with everything, I cannot balance on my seam without my thumb falling asleep

Breathe. again (dukkha)

Comment by 2bitmoment at 17/01/2025 at 18:13 UTC*

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

(apparently r/zen_poetry is restricted? Figure I'd post here if it's alright with mods - checked the rules, and I think it's on topic respective to rule 5? Maybe suggest that replies be more in tune with zen and stuff, but other than that I think it seems pretty ok)

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(apparently I also posted a call I meant for r/Zen_Art here? sorry for "double posting" or whatever, not my intention)

Comment by GentleDragona at 18/01/2025 at 03:02 UTC*

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

THE VOID

Have you ever bounced off the wall of The Great Nothing?

I mean that Place in which the very words that describe It, cannot go?

Imagine the Concept of the Concept Imagining

Concept breathing thought mirror, mirror Concept you, Concept me; of this no matter, we all agree

Demise

Retreat from vacant Concept/ Touch Concept so untouchable/ Void, spaceless, nothing ... Imagining

Enter the ritual of electronic dance/ Float in the rhythm of emptiness

Comment by [deleted] at 18/01/2025 at 00:17 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Alive and dead

Alice and bread

Down the whole and in the hole

Never such as such source distressed

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No one to blame

but by blame's own hame; defamed

No one; did as such nothing wrong

So blaming them; naught but bad faith's song

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Despite all negations

Seem to prefer the citations

Memes and thought

Rendered even more desolate than naught

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If here or there; absurd or even gayer

More the nowhere is the prefer

Just AMA anything; all players mere prayers

And I can't to the woke, defer