Grief Jueju Poems

Stupor pays a heavy cost,
for with soul awareness lost,
ignorance results in grief,
until we turn a new leaf.

Trapped outside but free within,
silence the way to begin,
whereupon...

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O wake my friend! Ope thou thy eyes
The lamps and stars and wind heave sighs
The leaves of trees all faint all fail
With autumn gale they...

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Into the Abyss

Death, a journey we all make,
Into the abyss for heaven's sake,
A final breath, life's thread will break,
And all earthy ties shall forever shake.

The...

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“That ego residue of past be shorn ~
We are time and again, on earth reborn”
~ quote by poet


Linear time sounds love's chime,
that soul may heavenward...

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kept long-stemmed red leaf
on this road of grief
a prayer of quick-sand
in touch of our hands

10/8/2022...

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Our ego’s impulse~
attract and repulse
both desire and fear,
deeming body dear.

The rot’s sunk in deep;
how’ll we take the leap?
Drop the bag of grief;
give soul some relief.

Vicious...

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yellow rose on bier
full-bodied treatment
grand life disappears
ripe thorn’s, bereavement

dried flower repose
buried in suitcase
emerge briar rose
soul in boundless space

3/22/2022...

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I, thus drowned in death's cold wake

          Eyes wept bare for breath's last sake

  ...

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Spring is here and in the air                  ...

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There is still snow on the ground,
and birds in trees make their sound;
I lay blooms with a sad sigh-
with grief and tears I am...

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Slow, slow, fresh snow is falling,
numb my footsteps are crawling.
My heart is broken and dead,
now, but a frail thread long fled.

Falling my tears wet your...

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