Buddhism Poems - Poems about Buddhism

civilrights/votingrights/democracyreform update on communication of opinion with senator warren constitutional means and measure as provided in description of property antitrust boredom petrol the contemporary lobbying for additional police in policy writing equates to the value of ignition of petrol rather than the clerical error correction of a homeless person becoming american that prepaid property of the citizen is in trial as evidence at the moment exiting a...

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(“Mind’s Eye Merit Badge” #67, 2020, original oil) A Möbius Strip Mind and nature of mind So close and yet so different Not like night and day different But earth and sky Not two sides of the same thing But opposites One an is, the other an isn’t One an illusion, the other real This is how truth and falsehood exist Like an object...

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Skinny in youth thick in later days Champion for truth despite delays As a late bloomer in thought process Born to a baby boomer and so blessed Believed in God but didn’t get much church Felt so odd how the church clicks work Rather open to explore other fuchsia faiths Went to the mosque just couldn’t be great And with Buddhism she...

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Step into splintered sunlight broken beams flash across bare, silhouetted flesh. Above Father-Sun forever scintillates, a deep and ancient ember, giving ceaselessly to all wanting nothing in return. The trees, they dance in verdant splendor, leaning lazily, they sigh with utter contentment. Their leaves, a chorus of flapping green, each one moving to its own rhythm, closely listening to the wind sing. White stars illuminate my eyes and echo through my soul. Vibrations...

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Firing blanks, i missed nothing. ‘Twas all for naught....

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Our plane went down in the mountain snow, but I was alive I walked on ice in the thin air, the only way to survive Then on a ledge, I saw that light, a valley pure and green With rivers rolling, flowers blooming, almost like a dream. I stumbled down a narrow path to find a monastery...

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Putting you above me Your feet at my head Is the natural thing to do When your mastery Is revealed. But it’s all relative As you put others above you and Others put themselves below me. That’s why it’s called The wheel of life. When I step back And my emotions settle I see that no one is The Master But that each can instead Be the appropriate messenger. (9/1/24) ...

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I shaved my head and wore a robe the mountain pass I found at last grew thin alas but fat I got on nature's lot her sounds were not my thoughtless strobe though I was dead to the mountain's mass in me she saw I knew not what my feet grew raw I found my past a timely flaw the mountain pass my life aghast and all was for a little more though I was...

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("Mind's Eye", 2017, original encaustic) Nature of Mind This state, not the external one Of time and place, but the natural state That knows no in or out, one or many, Is our true home. And yet we wander Endlessly searching for what is already here. What is this state? Open, welcoming, forgiving, peaceful, Without causes and conditions Thus unborn and undying, The simply...

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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 duel with death and oblivion. I looked for salvation, looked outside the door for breath and bread. I looked towards the sun, and inwards, and moved upwards and moved closer to the stars, within the...

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know thyself; is your life on the right track aligned with, refined by, the principles of dharma refrain, abstain, be kind and be calmer meditate, seek meaning: find moral momentum all actions count on this trip to nirvana...

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I mean, seriously? Talk about boundary issues! I get it, why the 7th multicultural value, and most recent to finally make it in to sacred UniversalYang/UnitarianYintegral iconology, doxology, eulogy, ecotherapeutic theology, green ecofeminist ecology, declares our polypathic RESPECT for our interdependent sacred web of life reincarnating win/win love As in, could Elder EarthMothers get a little RESPECT? Which just might not fail to mention that AnthroSupremacists are a one among many EarthTribe species, one of the more...

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I Alan Watts says we live forever In children if we can bear There is no joy in going on, ever And ever as a dying tree or flower II He was a brilliant Brit, knew nirvana! Died as American, in California Barely making 59 years, once pastor Presbyterian in Pennsylvania III I need to research why he quit He was undoubtedly good at it For faithfulness few...

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I sit under the trees Later My neighbor said “I enjoyed watching you pray.” “What do you mean?” “You sat there so still Head tilted up for a very long time.” “I suppose so But actually I was entranced By the crowns of the Oaks sweeping the sky And that Cooper’s Hawk nest along for the ride Swaying basket beneath a parachute “A Fledgling teetering on the...

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As I hike The winding Rattler paths of Green Mountain It’s tempting to think Beneath my skidding leather shoes These marbles of red stones Were scattered and tossed here Just today Laid out While I was still eating breakfast Though I know The mountain is rising from iron boots Shedding its skin Shaking to wind Alpines cracking its rocks like eggs Boulders giving way if you imagine a day When...

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