Lotus Poems

sunrise

sun rises in east,                                                   

PINK PERFECTION

PINK PERFECTION
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lotus
pink perfection
rising from murky depths
unfolding beauty, grace, and peace
hope

Karma Dogma

If intent and actions
are cause and effect
and influence the future
what you give is what you get
and yet
what about children
caught in the crossfire
when very young
murdered in man's mire
they have not yet begun
to live
and love is all they have to give
so much for karma
symbolised by the lotus flower
but whereabouts is it
in their most needed hour
forsaken by fortune
they

Lotus Spins

A sitting takes me to an attic of raw light
bestowing  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 lotus spins.
 I release this soul buried 
in the kundalini to a congregation 
of ambient tunes saying nothing,
taking flight unto a hymn

Victims

The dainty walk of Chinese women
beyond the Wall in olden days
was due to cruel and unusual punishment
confined and constrained by strange customary ways
victims of fashion prisoners of fad
small feet were in sadly big were bad
forced to wear a pair of lotus shoes
very small baby steps were all they took
altho' it wasn't until 1912 or so
when

Lotus Rebirth

Lotus Rebirth

White
Lotus ~
Shimmering 
Alabaster ~
Shy petals open
To the touch of sunlight
Blooms each dawn from murky depths
Wearing the blush of purity
She offers nectar to newborn day.

Sweet flower flees from midnight sighs
From black dreams assaulting rebirth
To follow the path of light ~
A golden corona,
In soft caresses,
Here awakens
The tranquil
Lotus
Star.

PETALS IN HEARTSPACE

 PETALS IN HEARTSPACE


Authenticity presents from persevering peeling              peeling tasked by cached Courage 
courage erupted emitting high frequency Faith
 faith embraced terrifying Truth
  truth consummated desired DivineLove
DivineLove lotused peace petals in HeartSpace 

Chinese Female Poets: English Translations V

CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red”
by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

After swinging and kicking lasciviously,
I get off to rouge my palms.
Like dew on a delicate flower,
perspiration soaks my thin dress.
A new guest enters
and my stockings flop,
my hairpins fall out.
Pretending embarrassment, I

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Like crystal tears, soft petals dance and gleam,  
While dewdrops stitch stars on morning's silken dream.  
Each blossom spins gold wisdom from earth's mud,  
As heaven's jewels birth dawn's awakening bud.  
Bud blooms like the sun breaking through midnight's veil.
Mud cradles pearls where phoenix tales prevail.  
Dream waters mirror souls

Seed in the Dark

Lotus flowers grow from black mud.
This is what Aaro sees,
standing at the edge of a 
pond full of lotuses in the garden.

Beauty rises from darkness.
Pink petals open above murky water,
green leaves spread 
like hands on the surface.

The roots know secrets 
the flowers will never tell,
how strength comes from 
places without light or colour.

What was buried

No Pain, No Poetry

Life's beauty is hidden in strife,
For contrast alone gives meaning to life.

No darkness, no dawn,
No battle, no crown.

No winter, no spring,
No cage, no soaring wing.

No rain, no bloom,
No silence, no tune.

No fear, no courage,
No risk, no voyage.

No fire, no gold,
No spirit, no soul.

No doubt, no belief,
No sorrow, no relief.

No loss, no gain,
No clouds, no rain.

No

like the lotus

love grew where there was none
from the depths of darkness

when suddenly there it was

idyllic serenity in bloom
and our hearts felt soothed


AP: 1st place 2025

Joy, dewdrops as if on lotus leaf

Joy’s like dewdrops on lotus leaf
If you know not life’s subtle brief.

It’s dawn if I open eyes, 
If not, a darkling night,
The wise whose sun would not rise, 
There reigns enduring blight
All along, life of buts and if,
Joy’s like dewdrops on lotus leaf.

Life’s echo spreads no far
Like haply chirping birds,
As footsteps on sands are,
As on

When music shall ensue

The step-well water gets when clean
And lilies then blossom therein,
In drones when bees come to lilies,
Ah, music shall madden the bees,
(And me by their maddening din!)     
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Translation |11.12.2024| music, lily, water/well

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. A man is lost in imagination: this would happen, and

Heart lotus blooms

Now that we have made love and light our mainstay,
it matters not if patterns of old surface,
since divine bliss magnetism within at play,
as Divine Mother, holds us in close embrace.
The currents carry us as we surrender,
witnessing soul’s ascent in childlike wonder
and as such there remains nothing to be done,
save breath by breath thus, with God

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