Long Buddhas Poems
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Bicameral GratitudeOK class, now listen up and down,
in and out,
said Professor Fuller Watts,
professing political philosophy 404.
We begin with a deductive
reductive
universal objective lesson,
then spread out across inductive intuition
unitarian inside/outside formation
and self/other-governing intelligence
through co-mediating mind/body gratitude.
I will...
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Categories:
buddhas, culture, peace, philosophy, political, thanks, thanksgiving, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
God's Kind of PoetryThe finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...
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Categories:
buddhas, god, poetry, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
In the Red Desert of the Rising SunIn the red desert of the rising sun
In the surrealness of its silence
The sky turned grey and ominous
Amidst the blackened rain
As the suns fell into...
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Categories:
buddhas,
Form:
ABC
Unconditional Love ConditionsIn times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why
What matters most seems to be toilet paper
Loops and loops of the stuff and people care about their bum
Three ply of course because thin...
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Categories:
buddhas, community,
Form:
Free verse
Thats What A Buddhas Like(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987)
That’s What A Buddha’s Like
It’s hard to know where to start
when talking about the ineffable.
Maybe starting at the end is best.
It’s taken me a lifetime to appreciate
the little things, the simple, unadorned,...
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Categories:
buddhas, appreciation, devotion, friendship, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Full Public Domain Translation of Avalokitesvara Hymn From Lotus Sutra Chp 25 Part 1The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will then asked in verse:
“O World Honored One of wondrous countenance,
I now seek once more the origins of the One Who Hears
And Heeds the Sounds of the World!”
And...
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Categories:
buddhas, angst, anxiety, art, universe, wisdom, women, world,
Form:
Epic
Gifts For ElizabethNew town, new job, strapped for cash. It was her birthday and this was all I could afford.
...
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Categories:
buddhas, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Asleep No MoreThe dawning day is like an open door
for voyagers adrift in living stream
to waken from the dream asleep no more.
When out of slumber’s seas we’re cast ashore
and consciousness resumes its heady beam,
the dawning day is...
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Categories:
buddhas, day, dream, inspiration, life, sleep, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Villanelle
Within the DreamThere are rights and wrongs, or so it seems,
in the most outlandish fancy flights.
When we’re asleep even in our dreams
there’s an awareness of wrongs and rights.
Yet are they the same for all of us?
Perhaps in...
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Categories:
buddhas, destiny, dream, life, self, senses, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Buddha ListeningBuddha is deeply listening
My esteemed teacher
kindly reminds me,
"To see the master
not as a [merely natural] human being,
but as the Buddha himself,
is the source [and resource]
of highest blessing."
But,
not necessarily the deepest blessing
for all EarthBodies
seeking spiritual multicultures
of...
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Categories:
buddhas, culture, health, spiritual, teacher, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra- New Liturgical and Poetic TranslationThe following is my poetic/liturgical translation of the Heart Sutra:
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara,
Whilst in profound Prajna Paramita
Saw illume the void of the five skandhas
And prevailed over all pain and peril.
Sariputta, image and void differ...
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Categories:
buddhas, faith, introspection, religion, religious, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Honeymoon Is Overwhat is wrong with thee?
o, plenty.
The non verbal,
repetitor.
She listens to wandering
ghostly attempts at
remembering
the past
to perserve
her future
to maintain
a quo.
ta.
of whom she laid eyes on,
upon the day
when her heart spoke
the language
of the unknown monk
whom the captain watts
often...
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Categories:
buddhas,
Form:
Verse
New Year SaleSpecial offer for forbidden fruit two for the price of one
Discounted pleasure until ultimate stock clearance lasts
Adam’s apples included
Unisex versions available
Sustainable and organic
Nails and planks for the eye flat-packed easy to assemble
Build your own bloody...
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Categories:
buddhas, new year,
Form:
Free verse
GandorlendeiumAqueous humor: she said of the buddahs hands that were
placed upon the table. Macula, and marvelous! A specticail
appealing to the eyes. Yards and Yards of lemongrass, and
beautiful bounties of Buddhas hands, the booty and prize...
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Categories:
buddhas, engagement, environment, farm, music,
Form:
Ballade
The Buddha's MasterplanBeneath the sea of glistening stars,
Between the ethereal evening air,
Lies a forest of glowing dreams,
But as diverse and rich as they are,
None escape the same Moonbeam.
Under the lucent morning glow,
Roll waves of raving emotions,
Turbid...
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Categories:
buddhas, allusion, analogy, beautiful, beauty, bible, blessing, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Haight AshburyThe love of Ganesha....
Born upon the branches of the Monterey cypress', ucalyptusly turning leaves
Joyfully displayed reflections this retros, predominant vanguards of the times
Preceptencies vibrantly rainbowic colours; renditions aside the sea
Peace signs embracing the Eastern world...
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Categories:
buddhas, hope, life, love, social,
Form:
I do not know?
Macabre Bazaargreat leaders sup in style
tete a tete, haute cuisine
attentive servants grovel
perfectly pleased to preen
as common soldiers while away
the quick moments of their lives
until the final stanza
battle screams, widowed wives
bullet sandwich breakfast
shrapnel pie for brunch
body bags...
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Categories:
buddhas, anger, political, war,
Form:
Rhyme
My Teacher-A ButterflyHere is my teacher,there flies my teacher
One who taught me to be higher the Reacher
Do not lose hope she said,For morrow
Strive hard and walk through every borough
Might you be, what I was, that today
Forget not,I...
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Categories:
buddhas, butterfly, inspiration, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey WithinLike an eagle I soar and spin,
Hover over the skies within;
Searching something hidden for long,
Whence my life, like the Om, prolong;
Incessantly tuning...
A million stars of virtues shine,
With moons of morals intertwine;
Sun of honor never does...
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Categories:
buddhas, journey, self,
Form:
ABC
The Great Dance Of Life
Life is but a Golden Minute, So Rejoice
To Die a must, To Live a choice
Into Infinity the Sacred Chant
The Psalm Of Eternity, The Great Dance
Life is a Cosmic Journey amongst...
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Categories:
buddhas, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Kandy PeraheraKandy Perahera
Geschmückte Elefanten im Lichterglanz
Zu Ehren Buddhas
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Kandy Perahera
Decorated elephants in bright light
In honor of Buddha
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Kandy Perahera
Decorado elefantes en brilla luz
En honor a Buda
________________________________________
Note: The Kandy Perahera in Sri Lanka takes
place...
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Categories:
buddhas, devotion
Form:
Haiku
The Rarity of RecognitionA wounded animal retreats to the scrub,
where anything worth saving lives.
It licks wounds inflicted by a wicked wind whipped world.
Filled with big stone faces unsmiling.
The wounded animal re-emerges with a perfected limp.
One eye missing,...
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Categories:
buddhas, baptism,
Form:
Rhyme
JudgementThere are seven bowls
from which will you drink?
The first bowl holds nourishment.
The second bowl is insubstantial.
The third bowl holds
creative liquids reflecting
a silver crescent moon.
The fourth bowl holds
a silver and white woman;
the...
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Categories:
buddhas, allegory, devotion, faith, inspirational, introspection, mystery, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Meraki In My HandMy girls are of my meraki
My little women plump and primped
Bulging curvy corseted crimped
They never fail to catch an eye
...
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Categories:
buddhas, appreciation, art,
Form:
Rhyme