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unnamed
unborn
sit stand move
effort ceases
no narrator no witness
no method no goal
raw perception
life lives itself
"I" appears — let it
just this
無為
Mire & Moonlight
some flowers only blossom in mire and moonlight
Wu wei distilled into language. Poems written from radical presence—not about enlightenment, but from what remains after the self dissolves.
vi
beside a green pond
ripples remind me
nowhere but now
iii
this body is a flute
warm wind breathes
through hollow bones
sea of bamboo
sways in the breeze
the song of no place
xviii
falling snow
bends tree
river frozen
morning silence
no flowers
no fruit
perfect harvest
xxx
dark graveyard
the earth here is mud
soaked by yesterday's rain
my feet sink as I walk
yet the stars
are the only light I need
to dance on my grave
some flowers
only blossom in mire
and moonlight
The Full Collection
Mire & Moonlight is a curated collection of 34 poems exploring presence, constraint, and dissolution. Released freely under Creative Commons because poetry, like methodology, should flow without gatekeepers.
Core principles: Radical presence. Extreme compression. Trust the image. White space as text. Endings that dissolve.
Read the full collection on GitHubThe poetry and the infrastructure come from the same place: a brain that runs on fascination, not discipline.