The third stanza stands unitary. The signature of the poem. The Self of Advaita. Not the little self, but the witnessing awareness. That which we really are. Some have called it spirit; some, the one. Walt: “apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am.” The real writer of poems.~Hridaya Nada 2008
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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