The Acorns are Marching
- The acorns are:
- falling from the trees,
- dancing in the streets,
- Gathering themselves together all a march!
- The Acorns are marching down the street!
- Growing golden feet
- Sprouting legs and arms,
- turning Golden in the sun!
- The Acorns are playing in the band
- waving pompoms as they march!
- Beating on their drums!
- Blowing on their horns!
- trumpets blazing out their joy
- The acorns are singing as they march!
- Singing an ode to joy!
- Singing out of their mouths
- The wonderful Dharma they employ!
- The Acorns are marching into the sky:
- A single moment of hearing, a single moment of faith!
- As they march on down the Street
- Inviting us to join them in the sky
- Where they march around the Buddha in three lines
- And proclaim that they will propagate the sutra to our times!
- The acorns are golden,
- their ears growing long and tongues broad
- As a single moment of faith transforms them to on high
- Where the deathless dharma is preached
Christopher H. Holte
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