August 2021
Tom Montag
theoldmonk85@gmail.com
Author's Note: You'd think he'd shut up, but no, the old monk is not done yet. We're talking about 3000 poems already. Help!

from "The Old Monk Poems"

Every stone
you don't kick is

another lesson
you didn't learn,

the old monk says.

from "The Old Monk Poems"

The stars know the way,
the old monk says,
but they won't always tell you.

from "The Old Monk Poems"

Darkness is not
the absence of light
but something within

the light itself,
the old monk says.
Particle physicists

can explain it further:
something like X =
not-X = X-again.
©2021 Tom Montag
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