Meditation

The stream hides itself
   In the grasses
      Of departing autumn.

Leaves falling,
   Lie on one another,
      The rain beats on the rain.

A trout leaps
   Clouds are moving
      In the bed of the stream.

The fallen flower
   Returning to the branch ?
      It was a butterfly.

The wind brings
   Fallen leaves enough
      To make a fire.

Haiku poems collected by Alan Watts and extracted from "The Way of Zen".