Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Impermanence (poem by Dogen)
Impermanence
by Dogen
(1200 - 1253)
English version by Steven Heine
To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane’s bill.
-- from "The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace," by Steven Heine
(Found this poem on Ivan Granger's Poetry Chaikhana site--see link on sidebar).
