Robert Zend

About Souls

Souls? Why write about souls?
A man can snuff out a soul.
A planet can snuff out a man.
An atom can snuff out a planet.
An atom. A tiny errant atom.
Souls? Why write about souls?

April 17, 1969

This Haiku

This haiku is a
rainbow arching in the sky,
starting at my heart.

April 3, 1969

Utopia

There are two kinds of freedom:
not to serve others,
and not to be served by others.

February 5, 1964

The Next Day

He dreamed of everything,
and when he woke,
he remembered nothing,

yet, he carried the dreams within him.

December 2, 1967

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. Beyond Labels, translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982), pp. 18, 26, 60, 72.

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