Haiku XIII

creatures

   come out at night;

      such a night owl 🦉 

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Zen Buddhism ☸️ 

   emptiness a blank canvas

      includes all possibilities 

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karate 🥋 

   kicking and punching;

      Way of empty hand ✋ 

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fighting 

   sanctioned or illegal;

       click go the handcuffs 

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kata forms

   learn one then adapt it;

       build your own

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like a leaf 🍃 

   swept along;

      swift river flows 

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believe in self

   one’s ability;

       be in the moment:

       wisdom of life

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dissolve ego

   challenging 😥;

       merge self to the moment 

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mistakes

    perfect mistakes make us;

         achieving humility

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creativity 

   challenges death ☠️;

       a moment of resurrection 

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life

   enso circle;

       death 💀 at the door 🚪 

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solitude 

    exterior fades;

        let loose true depth

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forget everything

    open the mind;

        power presence

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present moment

    outside realm of time;

         endures timelessness 

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heroes venture forth

    facing harbinger death 💀;

         survival makes a hero

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the muse

    the internal mind;

         chatters wildly out of control

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the muse

    present mind;

        inspires progress

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magical threshold 

    sphere of rebirth;

        swallowed into the unknown

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in to one’s dojo

    moment of entry;

        a metamorphosis 

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broken bucket 🪣 

   assumptions abound;

        possibilities born of its leak

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obsessions

   perfecting every thing;

       end being full bucket 🪣 

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defects 

   are a virtue;

       gain with a loss

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universe is change

    no rush;

        life is born of our thoughts 💭 

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one step

   a great truth;

        darkness connects all us

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bee’s 🐝 🐝 🐝

   leaf 🍃 on a breeze;

       summer nectar so sweet 

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change is inevitable 

    necessity is key 🔑;

        never for changes sake

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