Prayer Clothes Poems

"The Emperor’s New Clothes"

We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying 
like chrysallis books on a branch 
of those higher deities we trust, 
submerged, we are...

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No clothes
      to wear

   No time 
      to spare

   So say
...

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Gitanjali 11
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Leave this vain chanting and singing and counting of beads:
what Entity do you seek in this lonely...

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~ GREEN JELLO ~ 

A fellow from an archipelago
Puts on caps and hats made of green jello
   Doesn't care what you think
 ...

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God knows what you need
Before you need it
So why bend your knees
To chant or plead it?

Remember when you
Would make such a fuss
Each time your mum...

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In the ambiance of serenity
Life unveils the thoughts and actions of humanity

Revealing passions and intents
In our quest to take hold of our selfish ambitions
We engage...

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This dirt....on my hands
Is from honest toil
You fear...you'll get
Your apron soiled....

If they should touch
Your skin so soft
Don't look at me
Like I won't wash off

I know...my...

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I just found out the meaning to my bachelorhood. 
Now, it's clear to me that those experiences I had earlier are lovelorn.
I've just found the...

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