Published Poems - Poems about Published

...Salvation in an App Store? By Mark D. Stucky Google Maps won’t work for the way I feel lost. Is there a salvation app I can install on my phone to download redemption ......Read More

...Keys of a Locked Life quarantine questions washy world wilts on waiting confusion chaos keys of locked strife life staying inside my soul drifts swirls in such sadness outlets are opaq......Read More

...Canadian Geese flying south and trucks on the highway jostle for space in my ears. The trucks remind me of where I am in time and place, while the geese remind me of a lifetime of here and n......Read More

...Christians speak of Original Sin and Buddhists of Primordial Ignorance obscuring our Original Nature - primordially pure, radiantly clear, lucidly awake. My body and my mind know nothin......Read More

...(Honeybee on apple blossom and honey harvest - praise bee!!!) Extracting the Essence When a honeybee makes honey first she has to extract the nectar flying about between various flower......Read More

...When Cancel Culture comes to town What more is there to do? Do you fight, or just give in? It’s always up to you. But if we bow before the woke Our heads will surely roll As they demand their......Read More

...("Cherry Blossom Chi", 2023, original encaustic) Becoming Familiar One branch stands out on the fruiting tree yet the valley is filled with orchards in bloom. What is genius in ti......Read More

...At breakfast I sit at a table with a man who looks like an old chimpanzee face long, beard grey sporty blue driving cap on his head. There is much experience in his face of a life that has been......Read More

...The finis sing touches touché Knead dull brows knitted; belief system I cogitate gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid acquiesces to deck the halls of the mountain (dew) king with boughs ......Read More

...Every night the gates of delirium are torn apart the irrational flies across the moats and walls of my defenses as easily and seductively as a murmuration of starlings, and I am rescued carried ......Read More

...(North face of Mt Kailash, Western Tibet, 2009) For Kailash Mind like the wind blew Away when I let it go The way of all things (7/2009, first published in my first book of poems ......Read More

...(young Tibetan woman at a tea house in Saga, Western Tibet, 2009) With Light I walked through the market but there was nothing I wanted to buy, nothing I thought I needed, until the s......Read More

...Death comes close in the night when shadows grow and sleep envelopes, relaxing guards who snore slumped in corners their spears and shields useless on the ground, their dinner crumbs of cheese a......Read More

...I sit reading poems of Chinese sages with their paintings of mountains and mist from a thousand years ago. Outside, snow falls like it did then, and inside, I muse on it and the ways of the worl......Read More

...Just simply sit leaving mind alone without trying to change a thing or rush it along. Let it be relaxed and at ease and eventually the Nature of Mind will show its face like a shy fish tha......Read More