Long Bodhi Poems

"Christmas Wolves"



Winged ones 
unseen
feathers of pure light
fold their warmth around you 

as you walk 
in solitary silence
throughout the cold
Christmas Dark Night

Warriors alone 
wanting to take flight
always stay by your side
reciting good cheer

They will never leave...

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We celebrate Guy Fawkes although he did not quite make the grade

I know and understand rebellion threatens thus he met his fate

Could have been worse he could have blown of his incendiary hand

Less body parts...

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A most beautiful day
The Son of Suns, shining brightly on us all
Not hot yet, but bright.

A million butterfly’s swarm
Lighting on and around
Myriads of flowers surrounding.

See them in such moving colors
Each on their own chosen way,...

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My Guardian Angels

4/2013

Tattooed Angels
Enshrine my body,
Protectors of what's right,
forever vigilant
All day and all through the night!

Ganesh, Hindu Elephant God,
Loyal son of Shiva and Parvati
Embodiment of selfless devotion/remover of obstacles 
Provider of strength and honesty
 
The...

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yogi under the banyan tree
                yogi under the bodhi tree
          ...

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                           At The  Bodhi Tree
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Notre terre qui est à Votre taille
Forgive us please our enormous bilious hubris
The quasar-lit heavens smile only down upon us
For Our Master he presideth over the Universe

Our Architect-Father he beds down in the blackest holes
Our...

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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 Wei Dynasty of the three kingdoms era). I made some...

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GAUTAMA SIDDHARTA UNDER THE BODHI TREE

                   CC
          ...

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[Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, the greatest Fraud of all times]

Darkness like Halagu Khan is running
taking sword in hand;
Light is fleeing raising its tail.

The decorated dream-city will lose its
electricity for ever;
in all directions, the...

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When we are delirious 
with the delirium of sickness 
we begin to ask those ?'s
what is the meaning of life?
Is there a God?
Heaven and Hell?
Is time circular, like the mandala 
spherical like baby Jesus' bouncing...

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As the Death diameter distance grows this life pre pronounced decifers its 
               knows and forms poignant figures into neat narrow...

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A day of the leaf, is carried in the wind,  
and this cold December night, will be warmed by the lights of the Bohdi tree
I shall scrawl out a letter to a stranger, against...

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This sitting takes me to an attic of raw light
bestowing foams of quiet glow for travelers 
unyielding to a precise compass
of direction, a spaceless space nourished as it
were, losing the self to Bodhi-like clouds
and nomadic...

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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...

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When I, like an old professor, scoff all to shape;
My inner child scratches me within, like an ape.

I laugh aloud forgetting all belittling ills;
He says, I'm a hyena, and thus my zeal kills.

I cry and...

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Siddhartha, a young prince, with earthly life unsatisfied,
Left the palatial joys seeking enlightenment, worldwide.
Meditating in wild woods for long, he got his mind trained;
From Bodhi tree he walked toward the world, wisdom gained...! 

Life is...

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had a crush on good ol’
“jesus,” but being that he
was all made up, s/he had
to settle for the 
“jackhammer jesus,”
a big strong dildo
invented to make one
cum in the name of the
“lord!”---
now, her/his best friend
had always...

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Culture is not what was written
ten thousand years ago,
nor is it a godly dictate from
the 7th Century AD,
It is not what Buddha spoke
from under the Bodhi tree,
nor the harsh enforcements
of religious tribes.
Culture is all of...

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In the shadows, there’s a certain clarity,
A taste of downcast darkness,
A truthful distillation. 

In the shadows, there’s a granularity,
A note of deep resignation,   
A smokey reverie.

In the shadows, there’s a drowsy gauze,
A placid,...

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A prince born in the cradle of royal opulence
in the picturesque vale of the Nepal Himalaya, 
Siddhartha Gautama renounced worldly life,
turned a mendicant, embarked on spiritual quest.

Striving to escape the mist of mundane illusions
in the...

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Lord Buddha, the light of Asia.......

Lord Buddha was a son of King Suddhodana of the Gautama in India
He carried his name as Siddhartha during his childhood
He become a Buddha after found enlightenment under the Bodhi...

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“Cannot be named
Cannot be found,”
For in this effort--this person
Into non-Tao becomes wound.
The Tao was before time’s beginning.
The Tao is not found in complex systems,
But is revealed by listening to the heart,
To the oneness of all...

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( A Shakespearean Soonet - with 14 syllables- rhyming abab,cdcd,efef,gg)

My balcony was covered by a huge sycamore tree,    
My constant companion during the snowy Maple days, 
Memories come as insects around a...

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Breathe on me Spirit of Mother, Soul of father,  Karma of old 
turn my earthly body into a Celestial Dharma of reality 
Remove the chaos from my Universe and gather me 
beneath the Bodhi...

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