Awakening (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lucien Stryk
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Asia or Asians, Painting or painters, Sixteenth century, Pictures, Planets, Japan or Japanese people, Winter, Calligraphy, Haiku, Spring
The Poem
“Awakening” is an unrhymed poem in numbered sections that run I through VII. The title suggests an epiphany, referred to in Zen as satori. The dedication reads, Homage to Hakuin, Zen Master, 1685-1768.
In section I Shoichi, a sixteenth century Japanese painter and calligrapher, has drawn a black circle. Above the circle he has composed a poem, a haiku. Having been penned in the traditional Japanese fashion, with the lines and individual symbols running up and down the page, the poem and circle take on the appearance of budding flowers growing...
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