From ice,
wind blows,
swirls clouds,
forms snow,
then rain,
to crack
hard ground.
Sky smiles,
shoots rise,
bud grows;
sun-kissed
flow'ring
shows truth:
whole world.
© 2011 by Elisabeth T. Eliassen
This poem revealed itself to me as I read Chapter 59 of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō
