Here are some poems by "Legends of the Fall" author Jim Harrison from his book "After Ikkyu & Other Poems":

12
Not here and now but now and here.
If you don't know the difference
is a matter of life and death, get down
naked on bare knees in the snow
and study the ticking of your watch.

23
It certainly wasn't fish who discovered water
or birds the air. Men built houses in part
out of embarrassment by the stars
and raised their children on trivialities
because they had butchered the god within themselves.
The politician standing on the church steps thrives
within the grandeur of this stupidity,
a burnt out lamp who never imagined the sun.

-Jim Harrison

For the deluded mind a thousand books of scripture are not enough. For the awakened mind, even a single word is too much.
-Zen Saying