All That Is

Paul Leckner 1985 (Kansas)



All that is and was
and all that ever will be;
comes from the same source

It has not a name.
A name is something given.
It is the giver

It has not been born
Therefore it will never die
The mother of all

It does everything
Without doing anything
In the Wu of Wei

Think of a bellows
Empty yet never used up
Inexhaustible

About this poem

A group of Haiku talking about existence and what it is.

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Written on April 18, 2023

Submitted by paull.86328 on April 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXX XXX AAX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 322
Words 72
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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