SummerChilde

Chapin Beach, Cape Cod

Justin Lewis — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:28:57 +0000

Looking out across the bayat the end of a seized daywith our friendon the long wind-swept shoreWishing for, as always,the wending sun’s raysours to spendjust a little while more *published in The Wooden Fish: The No Barriers Zen Newsletter – Summer, Buddhist Year 2568, Issue 6

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Never Forget

Justin Lewis — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:15:45 +0000

the next timeyou are remindedto never forgetask yourself,"What have I forgotten?"was it the forced diaspora of the indigenousand the enslavement of the other? or the rise and fallof the fascist boots of Europe?the fallen twinsof the American dream?or the millions deadfrom partisan hubris?as the rusty muscle cardraped in Old Glorycaps the endof the American paradeask […]

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You Have Already Arrived

Justin Lewis — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:40:39 +0000

go for the walk that does not take you farther away but rather brings you to the present you have already arrived at this destination so let your Ordinary Mind reside there for a while instead of the past or the unwritten future what do you see in this place? touch, taste? what sounds and […]

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Serendipity

Justin Lewis — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:15:27 +0000

I feel very fortunateto have found you all those years ago by the side of the road how different my life would have been if I had just kept right on riding past how many poems would never have been written? who knew that your keys were my keys for inspiration?

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Projections

Justin Lewis — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 03:01:15 +0000

it only took a few words moments to transform from a thought into a virus that grew steadily by the day into an imagined predicament it only took a cool head and appropriate action to dispel the delusion withering those thoughts back down to a few words that held no sway

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All Sense of Time

Justin Lewis — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 02:44:04 +0000

my alarm went off way too early this morning and I lost all sense of time breakfast and coffee were over before I knew it the morning was scrubbed clean and the next thing I knew the clock struck noon traffic and distraction took up the mid-afternoon the early evening consumed just as fast as […]

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Traffic

Justin Lewis — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 01:45:05 +0000

in our unremitting rush to be somewhere other than where we are, it looked like everyone had the same idea to take the road less travelled we forget that oftentimes it leads us right back to where we are, the inescapable present, the place we should not rush away from

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When Being

Justin Lewis — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:48:02 +0000

when thinking when speaking when listening when moving when accepting when acting when loving when hating when disagreeing when being when knowing when anything we're always changing

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A Fog Rolls In

Justin Lewis — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:08:47 +0000

a fog rolled in with its misty grey memories of a cypress-lined shore the bark of the lions screech of the gulls the slow knock of the mooring against the hull of my old home I spent many days there listening to cassettes on the old car radio that Grandfather mounted up in the corner […]

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Abide

Justin Lewis — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:51:55 +0000

with no time to worry, take the ins and outs, the ups and downs, because you'll never know what kind of life you can get into unless you get out of your element and abide *inspired by viewing of 25th anniversary show of The Big Lebowski

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