New poem: "The Zen of Life"

The Zen of Life

Does one have to be enlightened to know

that chopping wood and carrying water

is the way to enlightenment? Does it matter

to the unenlightened?  The way is the way,

whatever we do in life, and all the teachings

in the world know this in their own blind

way; but the more wood we chop and water

we carry, the more we wake up to who

we are, until we become enlightened;

and that’s the Zen of life.