Koan on Sound

See how sound may confer movement

on an inanimate object.

Notice how temperature may

alter a sound.

Consider then the movement

that the temperature of each season

may impart to a sound

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017

Palindromic Piddling

Strange forces horological

stir me from the warm darkness

at 3.33,

peculiarly, it was 4.14 yesterday

and bizarrely 5.05 the day before.

After peeing pondering palindromes

I shuffle back to bed

to the warm darkness at 3.43

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017

Koan on Emotion

Is it ever a good idea
to act so frequently

on one’s emotions?

For example,

How many of us kill others
when we’re angry

or ourselves, when we’re sad?

No, it’s not a good idea.

Then why do many of us

fall so madly in love?

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017