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    Collecting Zen: Poems for My Friends
    Collecting Zen: Poems for My Friends
    Collecting Zen: Poems for My Friends
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    Collecting Zen: Poems for My Friends

    By Elizabeth May Childs

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    This is a collection of philosophical poems, describable by reports of zen-focused, living-in-the-moment views in a normal life. Many of the poems are discoveries of words to use in expression of spiritual understanding or clarity. Some are note-taking in the quest for enlightenment or musing about it.

    The collection of poems are a blend of new and old. Much of what I write I view as philosophical. I love Taoism and Zen and feel their influence. I believe all worthwhile things are a collaboration between us and God. My hope, when I write, comes from a place of kindness and gentleness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 5, 2018
    ISBN9781532049163
    Collecting Zen: Poems for My Friends
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    Elizabeth May Childs

    Elizabeth May Childs is mystic poet, was born in Iuka Mississippi, daughter to a herbalist mother and an artist father. Elizabeth was raised in Southern California, and has lived on and off in Eugene Oregon for the last 9 years. This is her first book.

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      Book preview

      Collecting Zen - Elizabeth May Childs

      Copyright © 2018 Elizabeth Alexander.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5320-4915-6 (sc)

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018905452

      iUniverse rev. date: 08/28/2018

      Contents

      Love

      My Friend

      Together

      James Franco

      While We’re Here

      Life on Earth

      Sasha

      Was That All of You?

      Mother

      Morning

      Spooky Night

      Cake Recipe

      Myself

      As Long As You Are Want

      Away from It All

      Truth

      A Home

      Yesterday’s Dreams

      Babysit the Earth

      Okay

      Walking in the Forest

      Temporary

      A Poem Is Born

      Bottle of Beauty

      Spectrum

      Chocolate

      He Who Has the Least Wins

      Chicken Scratch

      And in the end nothing will make a bit of sense

      Bodhisattva

      One Day

      Gone

      Us

      Patience

      Royal Me

      When It’s Time to Go Again

      My Son

      Banjoe

      I Love You

      I Don’t Like Your Touch

      Act Poised

      Hunger Pains

      Poem Pop

      Generic God

      Hatred

      Speed of Garbage

      Earth

      Hunger

      New Moon

      The Flight

      Cigarettes and Coffee

      Continues

      Take Your Pick

      Night and Morning

      Preach, Peacock

      It Stays

      Fairy

      Midday Mary

      I Don’t Want to Know

      Him

      Twenty-Two

      Made It through the Night

      Next

      Out of Here

      Eggs

      Change

      Today

      Sound

      Big Plane

      On My Mind

      Learning

      Fact

      The Bottom of the Universe

      Blueberry Memories

      It Hides

      Peace

      Waiting

      More

      Hide

      Games

      All One

      True Love

      Awake

      Hollywood

      Outside

      Lovers

      Heart Locked

      Expectations

      Life

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