Best Sutra Poems

We got tangled up in bed
Our legs, hands, fingers, bodies
Unnaturally twisted, intertwined
All crazy angles…
Why? Because of Kama Sutra typos!

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Rondelet: Don't blame India, the land of the 64 artful Kama-Sutra positions

    for the Punjabi Lady in an all-night jogging bus

Don't blame...

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Desire burns in the heart
A little spark to fire turns
The want becomes a need
As the mango starts to ripen
From bright green to dull
Temptation calls
Sweet nectar...

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When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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In the twilight of suspended star thunder
where the waking jungle and broken Temple of tradition meet one another
she moves with a panthera prana, pranayama of...

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Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Those early days of passion when we went at it like rabbits
 now long since have been replaced by crochet, crosswords and such habits.
A sudden...

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She is all about appearances, creating the right look
She wears glasses she doesn't need and carries around a book

She's the naughty librarian, her hair tied...

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Barefoot on the paving slab chill, concrete
feet feel frostbite emanations in their callused souls;
rooftop mystique clamours silent slate triangles,
perched the stray cat observers, red-eyes smoking...

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Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent...

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Just last night,
we disrobed our senses to the gush of rain 
and a trembling heater:  stars bathing contours
through a dance of flames  as...

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Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL

Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you...

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	Haikus 54
	
	parking lot romance
	soaking wet smoochy kisses
	far too many clothes
	
	a wet asphalt bed
	not in the Kama Sutra
	do it anyway


These were written for photo #1 in...

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In the shade of a Cali wat Lao I debate with Ajahn Anan
What the secret Rakshasa Sutra must really look like.

In Lao we call them...

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On chilly Tuesdays, I write according to a strict ethos.
Evening light is subdued in a room of primary colors,
heat on medium to ensure balance and...

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                Help!

Karma Sutra the book that I got
since our love...

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Siddharta Gautama Buddha
born with a silver spoon in his mouth, tired of reading sutra
awakened to the fact, fine clothes were uncomfortable, impairing 
sat under a...

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I  have been here, the touch of the rose petals under my feet...The drink of lotus wine, adorned in white lien  and gold......

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Hi all, I have recently completed a short and easy to use Pure Land Buddhist Liturgy and Prayer Book, based on the 48 Vows of...

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Stray thoughts
Noisy as monkeys;
Plunge into void


Words stray
Windy terrain;
Learn to listen


Write no more
Of you and I;
Be just one


Dreamer
Dreaming
Dreams


Why write poetry?
No money in verse;
Wasted energy!


Heart sings,
Words attend;
Love...

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The following poem is an slightly abridged and liberal translation of the poetic opening verses from Ch.31 of Upasaka Xia Lian Ju’s Infinite Life Sutra:

Wisdom...

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[Continued from Part Four]


The question might be asked, when it all had come to pass
and the children were delivered from the blaze en masse,
if the...

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[Continued from Part One]



Was this town a phantom heaven,
an imaginary sweven?
Oh deluded humankind!
It was a figment of their mind.

We are here; it’s where we are—
no...

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Note: This is a liberal English translation of an ancient poem found in the Classical Chinese Infinite Life Sutra (which dates back to the Cao...

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