Best Bodhi Poems

The Bodhi Tree

I am a Bodhi Tree with branches reaching for the sky.
My cooling shade entreats a song, a lovely lullaby.
My roots run deep above...

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and I hunger for you, like a moth
longing for one last flicker of flame 
nestled deep inside my heart

the memory of my childhood worship sits...

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A day of the leaf, is carried in the wind,  
and this cold December night, will be warmed by the lights of the Bohdi...

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yogi under the banyan tree
                yogi under the bodhi tree
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Away from the fever and fret of life
In absolute stillness, in abject surrender
Looking into the core of my being
In deep silence and solitude 
In an...

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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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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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When I, like an old professor, scoff all to shape;
My inner child scratches me within, like an ape.

I laugh aloud forgetting all belittling ills;
He says,...

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[Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, the greatest Fraud of all times]

Darkness like Halagu Khan is running
taking sword in hand;
Light is fleeing raising its tail.

The...

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Among jade grass blades
Even mighty Bodhi trees
Must share the same earth...

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( A Shakespearean Soonet - with 14 syllables- rhyming abab,cdcd,efef,gg)

My balcony was covered by a huge sycamore tree,    
My constant companion during...

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it was a chorus line of hollyhocks against a crumbling red brick building
that devastated my poem,
they laid waste to the words you asked me to...

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“Cannot be named
Cannot be found,”
For in this effort--this person
Into non-Tao becomes wound.
The Tao was before time’s beginning.
The Tao is not found in complex systems,
But is...

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Lord Buddha, the light of Asia.......

Lord Buddha was a son of King Suddhodana of the Gautama in India
He carried his name as Siddhartha during his...

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My balcony covered by a huge sycamore tree,
My constant companion of snowy Maple days,
Memories come as insects around flowering tree
Turning my gloomy days into glorious...

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