COUNSELLING

You don’t need a tongue to listen.

MISNOMER

Look. Rather than compassion pity is a cleverly cloaked form of passive aggression.

SECRET WEAPON

SECRET WEAPON

You have enemies?
Wish them not ill if you will
But enlightenment

VICTIMS

VICTIMS

Damaged to the core
Perhaps the best we can do
Not damage others

FAMILY

FAMILY

Play nice, my children
Not because you may be next
But simply because

STAGES OF LOVE IN TANKA FORM

STAGES OF LOVE IN TANKA FORM

Love looked for outside
Love looked for inside oneself
Love finds compassion
Love sent from in to outside
Love dissolves side and sender

HABIT YOUR OWN WAY

HABIT YOUR OWN WAY

Habits are karma
Karma is habits

We are karma’s slave
We are karma’s master

Habits are its tool
Habits are our key

PAINFULLY AWARE

PAINFULLY AWARE

Eyes peeled to the raw
Alert in the snow-blind world
Of a waking dream

BLINDNESS

BLINDNESS

Blindnesses cover
A multitude not of sins
But revelations

FORTITUDE

FORTITUDE

Let us be alone
And comfort one another
What else do we have?