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Best Buddhism Poems

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Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
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Categories: buddhism, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member View From the Prism of 'Ism'
socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism  ...

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Categories: buddhism, satire, society, truth, word
Form: Monorhyme
India Shining
India, my motherland best as any mother
To me, at par with best world over

India's invention of Zero and Decimal 
Critical to scientific calculation, invention

Rich ancient...

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Categories: buddhism, motherworld,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Balancing the Senses
This sitting takes me to an attic of raw light
bestowing foams of quiet glow for travelers 
unyielding to a precise compass
of direction, a spaceless space...

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Categories: buddhism, encouraging, peace, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
Vacation
Where black-necked cranes come to chat with me
In the company of wine and deep brown honey
Flowing from apple twigs in the heavenly valley
Of Bumthang ,...

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Categories: buddhism, beautiful, beauty, change, imagery,
Form: Verse



On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: buddhism, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Karma-W
The seed that’s sown, so is the fruit you reap
Doer of the good gather good, evil of evil reaps
Vipaka or result is reaction and action...

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Categories: buddhism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We're All Equal
We must never forget that
we're human beings, above all.
We're God's children, all equal in his eyes.
We need to treat each other 
with the utmost respect...

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Categories: buddhism, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Lyric
Religion Or Spirituality
Some choose religion as their sacred home for worship and prayer 
others choose spirituality, "it seats the noumenon of their soul " 
 
From very...

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Categories: buddhism, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Our Peace
I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling...

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Categories: buddhism, care, devotion, i love
Form: Free verse
My Meek Maiden
Mischief shaped like a slender solitary mademoiselle

Tantalizing my carnal calibration towards indecency

Cloaked as the city of truth 
Anointing me to serve as her gatekeeper 

In...

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Categories: buddhism, allah, allegory, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beginnings Endings
Beginnings – Endings

Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light...

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Categories: buddhism, history, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Vesak
Pouring out the golden glow
the full moon of Vesak,
trying to melt in the blooming sky...
Given the courtesy of trees & breeze
Even the birds show their...

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Categories: buddhism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Religion: Hitting Yourself Over the Head With a Hammer
Christianity: “hitting yourself over the head with a hammer so that when you stop it feels so good.”

Judaism: “hitting yourself over the head with a...

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Categories: buddhism, christian, islamic, jewish, religion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Wear Many Hats
Life can be strange indeed. I, for instance wear many hats. I am a husband, a father, a grandfather, a Christian, not a Christian, a...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buddhism, anxiety, blue,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs