i write poetry about zen buddhism, addictions, and experience. what more is there to say?
http://zenjohn.livejournal.com/
http://zenjohn.stumbleupon.com/
My poetry is available in book form at http://www.lulu.com/zazen.
Finally, check out lotuszendo.com, and tell me what you think.

johntaiyu's Works

Poetry	07/08/2008	My Perfect Wilderness
Poetry	06/10/2008	hubris
Poetry	05/29/2008	Starlings
Poetry	05/26/2008	The Right To Be a Nigger
Poetry	05/19/2008	Is In Dreams
Poetry	05/19/2008	Festooned Maypole
Poetry	05/19/2008	So There I Sat
Poetry	01/05/2008	Not All It Was
Poetry	01/03/2008	The Sense That Washes Me Away
Poetry	12/10/2007	What There Is
Poetry	12/10/2007	In The Pivot of Nothingness
Poetry	12/10/2007	Meant to Be
Poetry	12/07/2007	Who I Am Become Today
Poetry	12/06/2007	Comet
Poetry	11/30/2007	Back in the Day
Poetry	11/30/2007	Dry Drunk
Poetry	11/24/2007	Unmended Hearts
Poetry	11/23/2007	The Pain That Comes
Poetry	11/12/2007	Something's Bound To Happen
Poetry	11/12/2007	Feeling Sorry For Myself
Poetry	10/31/2007	No One Wants To Know
Poetry	10/31/2007	How Much Drunk We’d Got
Poetry	10/31/2007	Jacked
Poetry	10/31/2007	My Stupid Stupid Heart
Poetry	09/19/2007	All Good Stories
Poetry	08/28/2007	Where the Weeds End
Poetry	08/02/2007	It Sought
Poetry	07/19/2007	before the me
Poetry	07/19/2007	Canada
Poetry	07/02/2007	The Only Universe I have Ever Known
Poetry	06/25/2007	Silver Dharma Moon
Poetry	06/20/2007	Literal Nirvana
Poetry	06/13/2007	Photographs
Poetry	05/27/2007	Open Heart
Poetry	05/24/2007	A Smooth Soft Belly
Poetry	05/23/2007	Run for Cigarettes
Poetry	05/15/2007	one last time
Poetry	05/08/2007	Tall Cows
Poetry	05/08/2007	Who
Poetry	04/23/2007	Hero
Poetry	04/14/2007	Corner
Poetry	04/10/2007	Running From Ghosts
Poetry	04/10/2007	Grist
Poetry	04/01/2007	Dogstars and the Sea
Poetry	03/29/2007	Inch or Two
Poetry	03/21/2007	Shuffle
Poetry	03/16/2007	Cities of the Gods
Poetry	03/15/2007	The Old Chair
Poetry	03/15/2007	With Love
Poetry	03/09/2007	Perfect Sleep
Poetry	03/02/2007	Our Children of Gallipoli
Poetry	02/26/2007	Ice Storm
Poetry	02/17/2007	it's
Poetry	02/17/2007	what it is
Poetry	02/05/2007	Easy
Poetry	02/05/2007	The Itch and the Need to Scratch
Poetry	01/28/2007	Where the Universe Makes Its Home
Poetry	01/28/2007	No Worse Nor Better
Poetry	01/22/2007	Many Doored House
Poetry	01/18/2007	The Last Run
Poetry	01/16/2007	the path
Poetry	01/04/2007	The Horses
Poetry	12/21/2006	This is the Prayer
Poetry	12/20/2006	So it becomes you
Poetry	12/13/2006	Recipe
Poetry	11/28/2006	Oceans
Poetry	11/23/2006	Uniforms
Poetry	11/23/2006	Good Enough For Now
Poetry	11/04/2006	When the Water Came
Poetry	11/03/2006	An Instance Of Compassion
Poetry	10/28/2006	Plague
Poetry	10/13/2006	The Days of Plums and Wrestling
Poetry	10/06/2006	Not in the Boat
Poetry	09/21/2006	Trouble
Poetry	09/20/2006	The Big It
Poetry	09/14/2006	Everything Else Was Gorgeous Deep Royal Blue
Poetry	09/10/2006	stooped shoulders
Poetry	09/10/2006	Seekers
Poetry	09/01/2006	Strange Beliefs
Poetry	08/23/2006	The Cushion and the Bell
Poetry	07/24/2006	Crickets
Poetry	07/18/2006	Meatball
Poetry	07/11/2006	Granite Creek
Poetry	07/11/2006	Hearts Sedated
Poetry	07/06/2006	Not a Separate Thing Either
Poetry	06/27/2006	The Karma of Sobriety
Poetry	06/24/2006	Ryumon Road
Poetry	06/23/2006	Koan
Poetry	06/21/2006	A Really Bad Joke
Poetry	06/12/2006	Tomorrow
Poetry	06/12/2006	A Sharp Stick
Poetry	06/01/2006	The Last Exit Before Hell
Poetry	05/30/2006	The Gut Thought
Poetry	05/24/2006	Infestation
Poetry	05/17/2006	A Life Perhaps Not Squandered
Poetry	05/15/2006	Two Peas
Poetry	05/12/2006	When the Shit Ain't Broke
Poetry	05/11/2006	I don't do love so well anymore
Poetry	05/04/2006	Memories
Poetry	04/26/2006	The Stuff That Mixes
Poetry	04/24/2006	The Voices of Children
Poetry	04/18/2006	Two Block Radius
Poetry	04/17/2006	Still Loving You, II
Poetry	04/10/2006	The One Who Owns the Deer
Poetry	04/06/2006	River Gulls
Poetry	04/06/2006	The Ground Rushing Up
Poetry	03/30/2006	Black Girls Don't Suck Dick
Poetry	03/26/2006	Kathy
Poetry	03/24/2006	21 Years
Poetry	03/20/2006	Silence
Poetry	03/19/2006	There was Nothing
Poetry	03/18/2006	Pictures and Poetry
Poetry	03/13/2006	The Really Old Bushmills
Poetry	03/13/2006	The Buzz It Gave
Poetry	03/13/2006	Back When We Were Innocent
Poetry	03/11/2006	Lifer
Poetry	03/09/2006	What We Take for Real
Poetry	03/05/2006	in the dark pit of self pity and loathing
Poetry	03/02/2006	In Zen
Poetry	02/14/2006	An old friend Shelly
Poetry	02/14/2006	Self Importance
Poetry	02/13/2006	Monastery II
Poetry	02/11/2006	Historically Speaking of Love
Poetry	02/11/2006	how sick he was
Poetry	02/07/2006	Old Dan
Poetry	02/05/2006	Bad Actor
Poetry	02/05/2006	The Academic Life
Poetry	02/02/2006	The Grinding Down
Poetry	01/31/2006	Them New Pills
Poetry	01/30/2006	We Thought He Was Dead
Poetry	01/28/2006	The Slipping Away
Poetry	01/26/2006	Or Rather
Poetry	01/26/2006	Beef Tacos
Poetry	01/25/2006	Sleepwalkers
Poetry	01/25/2006	That Sweet Sweaty Stink
Poetry (Spiritual)	01/24/2006	This Life
Poetry	01/23/2006	I knew her from the bars
Poetry (Personal)	01/23/2006	Regarding the Nature of My Practice
Poetry (Personal)	01/20/2006	The Queen of the World
Poetry (Reflective)	01/19/2006	Dead Brothers
Poetry	01/17/2006	Mexico
Poetry	01/17/2006	Something about motorcycles
Poetry	01/16/2006	Lost Love
Poetry	01/13/2006	The Glimpse
Poetry (Abuse)	01/13/2006	Carcass Bones
Poetry (Philosophical)	01/12/2006	Red
Poetry	01/12/2006	Something for the rest of us
Poetry (Non-Fiction)	01/12/2006	Walter
Poetry (Spiritual)	01/10/2006	there is no jesus anymore
Poetry (Love)	01/10/2006	i dont write love poems
Poetry (Reflective)	01/08/2006	Seeing my boy

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