Everyday Mind XII

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I am Tekkan. I have married the poetic forms of the sonnet and the tanka. A story is told in the sonnet - using three quatrains, and a final couplet. The story reaches a conclusion in the couplet. The tanka offers a commentary or counterpoint to the sonnet - the combined poems have two endings. The meaning is direct - I want people to understand clearly. Metaphors are inspired by Shakespeare, the (aimed-for) precision imitates the Japanese. Mixing the sonnet with the tanka combines the sensibility of the Occident and the Orient - as I have done by living in America, England, and Japan. The subjects covered in Everyday Mind XII include - a thousand miles an hour - my mind is a bowl - funhouse mirrors - I dreamed of being a mite on a walk - stardust and gravity - code of consciousness - embedding nagging riddles within a mind - saying hippopotamus - monkey bars - my tongue dances when I say petunia. "Tekkan" is the dharma name I was given. I use Zen mediation to make poetry of ordinary events. Tekkan means, Iron Man, a settled practitioner of great determination.