forgetting the year of the dragon

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    Movement number 4: dragon seeks path – dragon whips tail. Bruce Lee, Way of the Dragon Hard by the lilied Nile I saw A duskish river-dragon stretched along, The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled With sanguine alamandines … Continue reading

tunnel vision

tunnel by Kin Chan © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

It is the light At the end of the tunnel as it might be seen By him looking out somberly at the shower, The picture of hope a dying man might turn away from, Realizing that hope is something else, … Continue reading

thanks

Kyōto - Nakagyō: Honke Owariya - Hourai Soba by Wally Gobetz © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

  Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The World-Soul If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. … Continue reading

sunrise

Ishihara_Mishima © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

 We are not come to wage a strife With swords upon this hill, It is not wise to waste the life Against a stubborn will. Yet would we die as some have done. Beating a way for the rising sun. … Continue reading

black on black

Bebop High School from muta's photostream © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

  Think what was there but now’s gone. Black suit with the black Ray Ban’s on. Walk in shadow, move in silence Will Smith, Men in Black He recollected his initiation, And one especially of the rites. For on his … Continue reading

dharma food

Taiyoji Temple by _foam © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

Fat was this lord, he stood in goodly case. His bulging eyes he rolled about, and hot They gleamed and red, like fire beneath a pot; His boots were soft; his horse of great estate. Now certainly he was a … Continue reading

moonlight and rain

Entre les gouttes et les arcades by Fred | Gilderic Photography © 2012 niall. All rights reserved.

When the first dawn came Like a cigarette in the rain Heard the thunder miles away Didn’t think that it would work out this way The storm came and it rained all night Randy Crawford, Cigarette in the Rain I … Continue reading