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9/5/2022

As MZMC marks its 50th anniversary, we want to hear your memories. Share your fond memories, poems, or other thoughts as a comment below.

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2 Comments

Ted O'Toole

9/6/2022 09:40:24 pm

Poetry Table by Ted O’Toole

I said a non-English speaking poet, she said
After I said that I like Seamus Heaney
She was tough, small
I don’t need any poetry, she said
I am looking for junk
You used to have an enormous sale
We stopped doing that, I said
Two strikes against me now
Let me tell you about my greatest moment in poetry, she said
When Borges came and I was third in line
And he was blind by that time
And he asked where I was from
Nicaragua, I said
And he began to recite a poem
And I began to recite it with him
And he went on and on
Thirty stanzas
And the line was getting longer and longer
And he was holding my hand
Let me show you
And she took my hand in both of hers
One above, and one below
She had a tear in her eye
She said
And so, you see
I don’t need a poem today.

Margaret Pfeffer

9/22/2022 09:40:31 am

a few haiku with MZMC in mind.....

old house by the lake
sounds of chanting fall softly
against the white capped waves

in the pale dawn light
a sudden rush of bird songs
the temple bell speaks

cold winter sesshin
white fog sits above the lake ice
eagle catches fish

pink cosmos dancing
playing with the autumn wind
an old crow watches

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