Notes About The Poem
1476 Poetry Contest
Sponsor Brian Strand
3rd Place
La mort de Bouddha (circa 1899) by Odilon Redon
The Death Of Buddha
By this age, eighty was extremely old,
and the Buddha’s body was described as
“like an old cart held together by straps”
MOURNING MIST-:-
MOURNING MIST-:-
sighs
sparks
ascend
gripping
griefs
of EVANESCENCE FADES
mushroom
tainted
death
impermanence
glides
an ÉLAN VITAL
transitory
Buddha’s
ephemerality
achieves
nirvana
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