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Osho's Garden, Nepal

The hall echoed with the drone of ecstatic chants and gongs, ‘midst a jungle of jasmine and red lilies. Steep stairs of tread worn, silica-laced granite and indigenous red brick meandered. Yellow jackets buzzed, and red-robed women with bound hair and tightly laced hearts jumped rope like children. Ornate caterpillars crawled fearlessly among humanities most beautiful hearts; as waterfalls fell in ecstasy. Acolytes placed the earthly remains of florescent black and turquoise butterflies on alters; a tribute to the Garden Osho had grown.

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Date: 12/14/2009 8:12:00 AM
Must be interesting place .... what a tribute for Rajnesh / osho ...would love to read more of your experience as it drawn in beauty of the word ... :)
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Date: 12/21/2008 2:45:00 PM
Beautiful poem, and I love the images it brings to mind. I'm fascinated with anything Nepalese, and the first stanza of your poem is especially wonderful, bringing to my ears the sounds of the chants and gongs. Thank you so much for your comments on my poem "Lament of the Philosopher's Hound"! ~Juliane
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