PrincessTigris• Show poetry

We are all travelers on a journey...and although everyone says the most important part of a goal is the journey, I have to add a stipulation to that...The people we meet, the things we learn, the chances we take, and the adventures we have all shape us into the people that we are going to be, and by shaping our surroundings, we are becoming the people that we desire to be. But our dreams, our hopes, and our aspirations are what keep us going day to day. To experience the world from a new and different angle! To understand how things work from another point of view. To really live. This is how life goes on day to day. The journey probably is the most significant part of a life...but when you have toiled and worked and given and finally you see your dreams come to fruition...well, that is true perserverance, and you know that anything is possible, even for just a moment.


I just want to add here a few of my favorite poems...the first three are sijos by an Anonymous Korean..the other is a haiku from Issa (Japanese):

A drum beats in the far temple

A drum beats in the far temple; I think it's in the clouds.
Is it above the meadow and hill, perhaps below the sky?
Something sends a veil of mist, I cannot heed the drum.

Mind, I have a question for you

Mind, I have a question for you - How is it you stay so young?
As the years pile up on my body, you too should grow old.
Oh, if I followed your lead, Mind, I would be run out of town.

My body, in its withering

My body, in its withering, may become a lovely swallow.
Under the eaves of my loved one's home I'll build my nest of twigs.
After dusk I'll fly aloft and glide gently to his side.

I believe

I look into the dragonfly's eyes
and see
the mountain over my shoulder.