#2485 -- a temple garden after rain

 

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a temple garden after rain

 

and half the leaves half turned

now lit

 

weather under me now

 

so make my devotion

 

dragon drool over the sacred puddle

flowers fresh assigned

 

there’s stillness of a great bell

 

maple tremble

strew of wet stone

 

witness the calm of cloud for procession

 

butterfly for cliché

just over the tiles of the roof

 

its all the valley’s river run

 

some would say therapy

some would keep stum 

 

if ever where

to be found by a poem

this must be the place