pine seeds in the wind

Don't expect others to praise you or raise toasts to you. Don't count on receiving credit for your good deeds or good practice.

Chögyam Trungp

A water moccasin and a hummingbird 

are the same in the void   

so are you and jesus   

or even a pebble and jesus   

lay down your thoughts and welcome the void  

as a young man I wandered all over this country 

it’s the same as having settled down 

in this valley for thirty years 

comparisons are useless anyway 

everything is equal in the void

James Lee Jobe

Phil Koch

You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

Thelonious Monk

Staying up most of the night working on poems 

oh lonely bones - can’t you rest 

why should I 

even now a strong wind carries 

some pine seeds to the earth 

even now the boats slide 

down the long Sacramento River to the bay 

a new day begins and I am alive

James Lee Jobe

Link: CLICK HERE to go to a wonderful poem by Ted Kooser over on the Poetry Foundation site.

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