Hiking Trail On Mount Koya (Haiku) Poem by Denis Mair

Beautifully constructed. Thanks for sharing. Got a 10. Please kindly check my poems HOPE and THE BEAUTY OF DEATH and leave your comments.

Many people go visiting a shrine- - but their thinking varies - - a believer's thinking will be surely different from a non-believer's thinking.But a shrine or a religious place has its impact.Sometimes after visiting a shrine we comeback with a different or a better feeling. Though the coins were picked up thinking that it would make no difference to Jizo, it raised a conflict in your conscience.You changed your mind and left the coins in a deserted shrine.

Great Haiku series of your experience of visiting the deserted shrine.....! I liked your act of dropping the coins at another shrine. Though no God needs coins, the act of picking up from what has been offered by devotees can a sensitive person's conscience.

" No watcher but me" ! Adventure. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

The sound of innate consciousness; the value and the necessity; the contradiction of an essential duality, wonderfully perceived in this well-written haiku series.

Haiku -a form I love and practice also! On this mountain of deep meditation- coins seem to be telling you something of value! O Jiso-San loves all that wander and he assists them from another dimension. Thank you for taking us with you up the trail.