Backwards Zen
Their souls are crumpled sheets
Stained green
The color of the world's inequities
Hold them to the light
And as they're pierced
Upon their heads is branded
A backwards N
Zen/Taoist/Philosophical-type poems
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Zen/Taoist/Philosophical-type poems
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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