Best Tibet Poems

Two boys of Tibet

There was a young boy of Tibet
Liked Swimming, but not getting wet
He said he would try
To swim when it’s dry
What a silly young boy of Tibet
 
Another young boy of Tibet
Had a Snowman he kept as a pet
That’s abominable said I
Yeti, couldn’t see...

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A Man from Tibet

There was a young man from Tibet
Who had wanted to become a vet.                             ...

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Tibetans,
Burning, 
The flames everywhere.
One, two, three.......
Already self-immolated,23.
How many sparks will be?
Hundreds or thousands,
Maybe even more....

Gunfire,
Tibetans shot down, 
One after another.
Now
Twelve Tibetans lie down in the blood,
Their bodies wrenched away
Never back.

Caught
To the jail.
An eagle snatching a sparrow.
Never to be seen again 
Or seen crippled
Handicapped, an invalid.

Tibetans
In...

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O’Great Nation of the Himalayas,
Claim your rightful place on the earth,
Prove to none, except yourself, what your worth,
Hurdle the Dragon, that Serpent into the dearth,

Stand affirm, fortress strong,
War with Dragon, no matter how long,
Do not dwindle, I firmly say,
This I decree to you all the...

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tibet's ahimsa
calmly exudes its pulse of
peace and non-violence



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022...

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NATURE OF HEART 

Dual curved carved
crystalline
earth pointed plasmic 
        Oneness 
quantum wave
particled 
allows Heart to heave
 
Heal with white light 
eagles 
on Tibetan height nights  
continuously crafted 
         ...

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She found a job near Annapurna and when she trekked around a turn
It was like walking into a wall of beauty, awesome like a burn
It sometimes stopped her cold; this display words could not surpass:  
Alpenglow on distant peaks, flags on a mountain pass.

Her...

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If I weren't afraid I would join protesters in Tibet 
in freedom's fight for the return of the Dalai Lama
exiled from his people and home in March 1959.

If I weren't afraid I would fly high into blue skies
and leap outside into a freefall skydive into...

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Turbulent takeoff, tension thick
Tongue-tied terror, toxic trip
Tropical tornado tempestuous threat
Timbuktu touchdown, tomorrow Tibet.




Begin with a letter
T is letter chosen
Sponsored 
by:
Angela Tune 
02/07/2022...

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cold harsh desolate terrain
where life to us seems hostile and cruel
gardens painstakingly nurtured
with minimal returns

so much effort so little gain
yet a most appreciative and spiritual people
atop their mountains so close to God



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 13, 2022...

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(On the road to Kailash, Tibet, 2009)

There and Back Again

Pilgrimage
An ideal place
Seen through
An ideal lens

And so we go!

The journey of all souls
In endless procession
To the top of the world
Up above the highest heights
Where the air is thin
Light bright
Mind clear

Up where idealism
Meets the rutted road
As dust...

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(Young Tibetan woman at a tea house in Saga, Western Tibet, 2009)

With Light

I walked through the market
but there was nothing I wanted to buy,
nothing I thought I needed,
until the smile
on the faces of a few
gave me what can’t be bought,
and in that moment I drained...

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(Upper slopes of Emeishan, China, 2017)

Six Pilgrim Poems

In the Park
Belly full of chi
sky with gentle rain waters
dancers like flowers

My Dzogchen Realization
“Ah, Ah” says Raven
in play, in jest, proclaiming
primordial sound

The Way
Alone I wander. 
Too tired to climb the peaks
I settle into the valley
Following the way.

Emeishan
In the...

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Master Longchenpa’s heart advice is simple yet profound;
that everything we perceive is our mind’s projection,
and thus delusion,
that everything we experience is in flux, 
temporary and not solidly real,
and thus illusion,
and that the path forward is one of letting go,
lightening up, being less heavy and serious,...

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(North face of Mt Kailash, Western Tibet, 2009)

For  Kailash 

Mind like the wind blew
Away when I let it go
The way of all things

(7/2009, first published in my first book of poems THE HEART OF IT, 2015)...

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