BETWEEN TWO PINES

Between Two Pines is a Poetry Dōjō publication, a place to offer up our poetry of the Way.

This is our online chapbook, featuring invited and selected poems from fellows of Poetry Dōjō and students of Small Silences.

In April 2020, we will publish our first annual collection in print.

Poetry is our meditation.

May 2019 / Featured poets

Fellows of Poetry Dōjō.

Bodhi.
Diane Langley.
V. Huntress.
Stephanie Squibb.
Fa Hsing Jeff Miles.

Students of Small Silences.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel.
Kokuu Andy McLellan.
Owen Swain.
Shirin McArthur.

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all that’s blooming
in the empty field:
cloud-shadows

— Bodhi

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full of silence —
the old temple bell

— Fa Hsing Jeff Miles

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mourning dove song —
for a moment the world
painted pink

— V. Huntress

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rain on the sky light
melts into silence

— Diane Langley

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fading
with the twilight —
raven-song

— Bodhi

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waiting for a poem:
steam rises
from my tea

— Fa Hsing Jeff Miles

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a walled garden
within quiet
o p e n i n g

— Owen Swain

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sun
teasing the skin
bone stillness

— Stephanie Squibb

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whiteout
a crow calls
through the mist

— Kokuu Andy McLellan

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cut calla lily
alone —
at least there is water

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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shattered feathers
across the stones
full belly

— Shirin McArthur

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missing orchid blossom —
sudden loss

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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no wind no sound
holding stillness
hawk appears

— Diane Langley

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a piece of mirror reflects —
flutters against the walls

bird with glass wings
at evening zazen

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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