Best Kwan Poems


Shiny Minded Stone

"What's your story?"
she questions,
"you seem interesting."

wildflower eyes
                                                                                  ~SIDE-NOTE:  
I reply, "NOW."                                                                    (Kwan$aba! Ha! Really, 

often people become confused                                                    
by such a unique response                                                            
not this one...                                                                                
she's a beauty                                                                       
shiny minded stone                                                                  
lives warm under veins
lacks definition of alone

tho solo she stands
tallest green blade
unscathed
each time the oily blade passes above

erect 
she stays the same
tingling pulses exhale her pores
she'd rather sink
than have to think the way of worldly whores

still...
malice skips her
no ripples in the lake
dripping from her face
sunshine slips across tangerine cheeks

gold flows throughout waves 
streaming locks
sky clear eyes surprise those
choosing to be consumed 
by her entice

hands free of envy
no webs to spin
hips unmolested
thighs slick
turpentine

be warned
she will divide you
no voodoo 
or silly twisted games
though safe may escape you

blemish-less
untangled...
the girl
she
Goddess
baby of zero maybes
KNOWS....
how?
she knows

as clarity lent us its giant umbrella 
her lipstick smacked my tongue 
from there
we never looked back

~JSLaM

Notes Regarding the Living Heart

A single seed can turn into a forest.
A single heart can transform a nation.
To be brave is jai ka.
To be generous is jai kwan.
To test the body, climb a mountain.
To test the soul, meet another.
To find happiness, meet as strangers,
But don't stay that way.
With a sabaidee, greet the days, one by one.
With a khop jai and a smile, do what you can 
To change worlds, even one inch, one hand at a time.

That is the path of the jai, 
Human and forever growing.

Devil's Dandelion

Calling to the world from within my four walls
Is not my cup of tea
Maybe beer.

The humming birds die due to cellphone frequencies
I have decided to quit talking
Scavenging on littered words
Had never been my kwan
The truce of dexterity
Had been dipped into the labyrinth of blood, love and despair
My mind is treading on the cloud of nothingness
I seek for the time portal
Squatted down to have a better look at the world
From within the four walls.

I lay back on my once-fluffy pillow
Dream the memories
The cranking of the door is defeaning
Soundproof, I had lived
Mute is good,
Afterall, what is more important for the tongue..
To talk?
To taste?
To kiss....?
The long hours like a deathly hallow
Purge my soul
Like the Devil's dandelion
I flutter in the still, stale air
As, I wait
From within my four walls.
© Iman Roy  Create an image from this poem.

Mantra

"We must treat with love those whom God has placed in our path"
                          --Linda Hunt, as Billy Kwan
"And, so it begins..."
    says Linda Hunt, an actress
playing a man who is also
a dwarf in "The Year of Living
Dangerously", not leaping 
tall buildings in a single 
bound, just a miniature 
'man for all seasons' 
thrown from a window 
for political reasons.
Blood and gore on a Jakarta 
street is not a neat
resolution in this shadow-
play we call life.  Shadows 
are cast when choices 
appear -- to honor, (or not 
out of fear it costs dear).
What price sacrifice?  If 
you have no handle, no clue, 
no buzz-- intone the name 
of the one who does: Billy 
Kwan, Billy Kwan... then
blow out your candle.
© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.

Recycle Your Style

Excuse the writing I wear on my shoes and 
the patches i wear on my clothes.
The long shirts I wear that hang to my waist 
with my animated hair from the shows.
The rips showing my brown skin,
  seeking goddess Kwan-yin.
"I am beauty".
© Hani Hani  Create an image from this poem.

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