Plant the Seeds

Plant the Seeds

Chan monk on knees, hands in earth.
Boy asks, "What will New Year bring?"
Monk's head bowed in thought, "Sweet Peas,
I plant seeds, to bloom in Spring."
                   Judi Van Gorder

Chan is zen in Chinese

4 Lines.
Third Place Jan 1, 2018-Jan 15, 2018 Oriental Poetry Contest
Ch'i Yen Shih  , the elements of which are:
         1. stanzaic, written in no more than 3 quatrains, usually only 1 quatrain.
         2. measured by 7 characters per line which in Chinese are mono-syllable words but could be words of more than one syllable when translated in English.
         3. Usually written with a caesura after the 4th word in a line.
         4. rhymed. Rhyme xaxa xbxb x being unrhymed.
         5. always written with parallels and balance.