Week of

Four Season Haiku Tiger

SPRING

Shifty fire

Amber with coal

I detect something in the jungle

 

SUMMER

Tigers get good bath

Fresh look of their coat

Competes with clean bamboo leaves

 

AUTUMN

Maple leaves might pounce

Tigers might become maple leaves

The dichotomy is in visual art

 

WINTER

Highland bamboo

Conference of geese

Tiger might smile at the south

 

The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume Seven, p. 590.

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