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"Reading poetry is the finest form of excercising the writing muscle I know."
Poetry @Edwin Voskamp's - Zen Poetry
"Zen Poetry", by an unnamed Taoist priest
"Epitaph", Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BC)
"Ulysses (excerpt)", Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
"Xanadu", Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"The Tyger", William Blake (1757-1827)
"She Walks in Beauty", Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
"St. Crispen's Day Speech", Henry V, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Into a soul absolutely free
from thoughts and emotion,
even the tiger finds no room
to insert its fierce claws.
One and the same breeze passes
over the pines on the mountain
and the oak trees in the valley;
and why do they give different notes?
No thinking, no reflecting,
perfect emptiness;
Yet therein something moves,
following its own course.
The eye sees it,
but no hands can take hold of it -
the moon in the stream.
Clouds and mists,
they are midair transformations;
above them eternally shine the sun and the moon.
Victory is for the one,
even before the combat,
who has no thought of himself,
abiding in the no-mind-ness of Great Origin.
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I attended a bullwhip handling seminar given by Gery L. Deer in Ann Arbor, organised by a friend of mine who had seen Gery perform at a local Science Fiction convention. Since I have practiced diligently and acquired two more whips: it is boatloads of fun!
I have been running my new game settings, based on my serial campaign concept,
as well as have complete websites: ShadowWorld Mainline, ShadowWorld WWII and Grand Design.
I am working on a new current day ShadowWorld setting, with a new, entirely different cosmology.
More ...
Underworld, though laying claim to prior use,
was renamed to ShadowWorld in the summer of 2002,
to avoid confusion with earlier published role playing games with same or similar names.
It was moved to its own website.
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