Lines from Kyoto

Preston Keido Houser

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One villanelle a week on Zen Buddhist and Taoist themes.

12/25/2021

Fushimi Inari Shrine

This is my final “Lines from Kyoto” podcast—one poem a week for a year, 52 in total. Volumes of my villanelles available via Amazon.com. Thanks for listening. Bows and blessings, Preston Keido Houser
12/11/2021

Trillionaires

When common sense and decency fail, writers sometimes resort to satire in order to point to a higher morality.
12/04/2021

The tantric troubadour

Photo: Shippoji Temple, Nose, Osaka Prefecture.
11/27/2021

A haunted hemisphere

Photo: Guardian spirit (nio) of a Buddhist temple, one of a pair, a manifestation of the bodhisattva Vajrapani.
11/20/2021

Any which way

cf. “The Cloud of Unknowing,” an anonymous work of Medieval Christian mysticism.
11/13/2021

The no-Way highway

Photo: Myoshuji Temple, Kameoka, Kyoto
11/06/2021

So says the silence

A dialogue twixt two voices: night and light.
10/30/2021

The lessons learned in lockdown

“Lest human voices wake us, and we drown”—stolen from T. S. Eliot, the last line of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Photo: Make Shrine, Sonobe, Kyoto.

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Lines from Kyoto

One villanelle a week on Zen Buddhist and Taoist themes.

One villanelle a week on Zen Buddhist and Taoist themes.

Creator

Preston Keido Houser
Years Active

2021
Episodes

52
Rating

Clean
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© Preston Keido Houser
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Lines from Kyoto