birth-death rotate
desires bait soul
just wait it out
Categories:
sages, birth, death, desire, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk
So speak the hidden Sages,
Such wondrous stories of mystical places.
Should I seek beyond the shadows
Sacred spaces and moon-kissed meadows?
Silently the dreams come slipping,
Softly into my nighttime dripping
Songs of the ancient magical Mages.
Categories:
sages, dream,
Form: Pleiades
Brought out by sages
Birthed within seas of dharma
Beheld by Mani
Begotten as the world’s soul
Brought out by the rising sun
Categories:
sages, allegory, analogy, birth, culture,
Form: Tanka
If you walk up to her right now
And before all eyes quickly bow,
She will you her night's bed allow;
Throughout the night address your slough,
Her lands release for you to plough,
Your rivals warm against a row,
Everything hand you but a dhow,
Because finding one knows not How...
If you walk up to her right now
And before all men act a cow
You're getting a sleek Hausa Cow.
Not in the next hour: "Right now".
It is no debate for sages:
Deserve worshipers their wages.
Categories:
sages, imagination, lust, western, women,
Form: Rhyme
The sages I have read,
all realize they are humble...
The fools I've read understand
they're always all proud...
Categories:
sages, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram
Lost & Found
David J Walker
The hardback book bore a
Certain air of confidence
Of the permanence
Of its presence
In a library’s dust
Thrust high
Upon a back shelf
Waiting for the curious
To rediscover the order
of its letters
and the messages
hidden in its pages
in a thousand years
one hundred sages
will work on
reinterpretations
Categories:
sages, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Wild birds our sages;
we be trapped in cages.
How sweet the outside sound
for larks that are housebound.
We bump against the walls —
our bones afraid of falls.
In sore fettered season,
we might lose our reason.
How sweetly the wind sings,
the delightful cell rings.
Free prisoners of lock —
birds of a feather flock.
Together in spirit,
winged angels don’t fear it.
Dear saints God’s never thrown;
Doves we’re never alone.
3/17/2029
Categories:
sages, bird, community, loneliness, prison,
Form: Alexandrine
Roaming rivers twist and turn for miles;
They are never bored but, anxious,
As they collect their treasures.
The rivers grow wise and
Become old sages,
Full of knowledge.
If only,
They could
Talk.
Categories:
sages, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Nonet
Seers and sages have come and gone
You are to be compared to none
You are not bounded by time and space
You are not affected by chance
You’ve stayed for eons of years
Sleep and slumber affects not your eyes
Who are we to tell your age?
Individuals only pray you turn to their page
To us, day and night passes
To you they are endless
You make all the decisions
For all the nations
Ours is only to choose
For we have no time to lose.
When it’s time to gather in your presence,
To savour ourselves in your glorious essence
We are always found wanting
And each time we come along panting
For your ways are holy
We are imperfect, empty and unholy
Like a drop of water in the ocean
That cannot stir or cause commotion.
There's only one conclusion:
Our lives is in your hand;
Without you, men are but mere illusion,
Blind and being led by the hand.
Categories:
sages, allegory, analogy, father, god,
Form: Couplet
The following poem is an slightly abridged and liberal translation of the poetic opening verses from Ch.31 of Upasaka Xia Lian Ju’s Infinite Life Sutra:
Wisdom as vast as the boundless sea,
Bodhi as high and wide as Meru peak,
Their halos bright beyond sunbeam,
Surpassing the moon’s luminous gleam.
Their hearts white and serene like snowy hills,
Their patience as enduring as the fields,
Their calm minds like pristine waters
That wash away the defiling dusts,
Their profound insight as keen as fire,
Burning away all worry and fraught,
Non abiding and breezing o’er any mire,
Sounds of Dharma: striking lightning,
Warning the deluded to wisdom ripen,
Pouring forth truth like soothing sweet dew,
Their grace like canopies of Linden trees,
Cool shades of respite for you and for me.
Poem released into Public Domain.
Categories:
sages, allusion, appreciation, blessing, religion,
Form: Ode
Truth has replaced touch, I need the wings back.
Live the light in a world covered in Ivory black.
Passion for those in misery, story of boy turned man.
So beautiful to be, feeling weight inwardly as liberty’s master plan.
Solid dreams of gold built by the tears of all,
weak as a child’s caul, until time calls and i fall.
I’d like to see them smile, so they see that of you, never hostile.
I forever need to grow , because my soul is pure and fertile.
Categories:
sages, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Is not what is sought mere illusion
Shrouded in a haze of chaos and confusion
That lays waste the creations of God
Justified by a righteous façade
Lines are drawn and defiantly broken
By vicious acts instead of words spoken
There cannot be truth in this
With innocence cast to a vile bliss
They stand with wisdom rendered blind
Nicked the hope of all mankind
Leaving wailing in its path
Bleeding from the wounds of wrath
Leaving those with true wisdom reaped
Prayers are veiled in tears they weep
They, who have sought the secrets of God’s heart
Truth is their wisdom, seeming futile to impart
Categories:
sages, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Lingering languages bowing to lovely lies
Men’s mansions begging to murder morality
Falling flowers born to fraternize frailty
Categories:
sages, art, inspirational, life,
Form: Haiku