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10 Ways of Looking at a Walnut
I.
In the vast forest,
the only sound
was a falling walnut.
II.
Taken from sky
to earth,
the walnut sits for many seasons.
III.
The mountain adventurer,
knapsack leaning on his back,
steps on a walnut.
IV.
If a walnut falls in a forest,
and no one is around to hear it,
does it really make a sound at all?
V.
The Walnut,
eaten by people,
eaten by squirrels.
VI.
Who walks in the many
cliffs, crags and fissures
in the shell of a walnut.
VII.
There are some with
a rare talent, to
see the pattern in the leaves
of a walnut tree.
VIII.
Rain falls in a storm,
the pattering
is accompanied by
the creaking of a walnut tree.
IX.
The food critic sips
wine aged in a barrel
made of walnut
and nods.
X.
They thought they found
Blackbeard's lost treasure
but when they opened the chest
they found that it was full of walnuts.
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