Best Monk Poems

I am
in the middle
of meditation
in lotus position
I am
the reason
for you to leave me
Solitude
the big opera of God
a poets reward
You are
the unspoken complicated words
dancing far away
only dust and smoke
(Evolution pollution)
is on the way
and remembers
Big destiny waves
no one here
to see now
what I feel
I am a
Shanghai monk
in orange...

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III.
But I had a much higher purpose now,
damned or not, I would serve the True God,
for thirty years I served with my brothers,
upon a humble path I faithfully trod.

Maybe I wasn’t a miracle worker,
though I saved lost pilgrims in my time,
age etched lines in my...

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II.
When the abbot came to the iron gate
he made no move to invite me in,
said,”I’ve seen fell creatures before this night,
you are a monster of death and of sin.”

I said to him,”Yes, that’s what I’ve become,
I was forced by a creature depraved,
didn’t choose to be...

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I.
In the year sixteen hundred and thirty-five
I was a fool young man known as Ludwig,
back from the wars and flush with new money,
spent it on fine whores and copious drink.

One pale lady led me out into the street
where her pimp stood in shinning moonlight,
he smiled...

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IV.
I believed I was done with the vampire ways
and gave thanks for all that had transpired,
but before three months passed, from just outside
I heard the vicious insults of my sire.

Cannot say what pushed me to go out there,
all my brothers urged me to remain,
just given...

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If intent be pure,
outcomes as may be any,
oh hermit, all’s forgiven.

Nonjudgmental eye
observes waves in the ocean,
according no preference....

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There once was a monk with a wave
Who desired a head with a shave ...
      Well, the barber was such
      That she cut back too much
Thereby leaving his globus concave...

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This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in Arizona and New Mexico.

By: Moji Agha

Sufi Monk Credentialing

Late this afternoon...

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When all around was cold and white,
The kindly monk set out that night;
His dogs were trusty, he was strong,
Prepared to search the whole night long.

He covered miles of icy ground
And wouldn’t stop until he found
The orphans stranded in the snow -
His dogs would know which...

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The Monk and His Genes

George Gregor Mendel.
Socialized with beans and tendrils.
He never planned to marry
After he and genes did tarry.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form:  Clerihew...

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“The Monk Windows, Ravens, Angels and Embryos Forming” 

Dawn arrives
in the black and white
misunderstood in the abstract
you can see the 
embryos of thought forming 
always inside us 
the children 

white angel wings 
cover sleeping pages
where raven wings
spread like evensong 
in storm clouds cutting
through the dissolving...

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Unsullied by the world, with conscience free,
He sits in contemplation, hour on hour,
Of one small point on his anatomy
From which he gathers strength and mystic power.

Not for him the hero’s wide acclaim,
The soldier’s glory, nor the merchant’s prize;
Deaf is he to trumpetings of fame,
Blind to...

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I am like a Siberian tiger
Creeping through taigas
Looking for great power

A letter arrived one evening
Praising my hypnotic gaze
And you craving a carnal touch

I arrived with a prophecy
My magic cured Tsarina’s son
And led me up to autocracy

You can shoot me, poison me
But I will rise again,...

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Silence is a monk
in a mountain 
of deep
In meditation
Of heart
Silence is a water
In drench
In dream
Silence in his talk
whispering
within sough
Silence is a monk
In crystal 
secret in depose
 in his heart...

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She
Said
The monk
Had hovered,
Hooded, faceless. A
Month to the day later, she died.

*based on a true story...

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