The Onshore Wind

Poems
Written By John Legate
 

The onshore wind

causes waves

to roll up onto the beach,

one upon the other.

 

A Douglas fir sways gently,

while a great blue heron

alights silently

on a bare branch

and sits motionless.*

*Excerpted from: Breakthrough: A Paradigm Shift to an Ecological Consciousness (unpublished manuscript)

 
John Legate

John taught philosophy in Toronto. His Master thesis was entitled, Zen and Creativity. He studied with three Zen Masters and learned Tai Chi from a Taoist master. He was asked to teach in 1989. He has given talks, workshops,and seminars in Zen and Tai Chi for over 30 years in Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico.

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