Samsara Poems - Poems about Samsara

...("How to Hold Love", 2019, original oil) Carpe Diem This life Precious from conception Right on through till death; Each moment a chance to break on through To the eye within the st......Read the rest...

...("Exploded View", 2011, original oil) Complicit in the Lie Everyone you meet Is complicit in the lie That this is what’s real (12/29/23) ......Read the rest...

...("Conceived in Light", 2017, original encaustic) Conceived in Light On this wheel of life The man of constant sorrow Plays illusion's game (11/4/23)......Read the rest...

...("I of the Beholder", 2014, original pen and ink) The World Is Changing Quick as thought The world is changing Right before our eyes Everywhere People waking up To what needs to c......Read the rest...

...Feeling something’s not right a general dissatisfaction or persistent fundamental flaw I look inward for a cause. Dr. Hubris, at your service! Self appointed, to discover, diagnosis and cur......Read the rest...

...Under the sun and moon, flawed men linger in the cold Who in the mist of darkness, cut and rip apart trees eons old While stepping on grass and insects for wood to be sold Deaf to the pleas the......Read the rest...

...("Bristlecone", 2016, original pen and ink) Samsara Beneath the titillation of Samsara the veneer of morality waits. Or is it the opposite? Beneath the veneer of morality the titilla......Read the rest...

...Once again, worn out From the simple act of living Blown out of all held dear Waves come and go Stretching across time and space A tragic loss here A triumphant gain there And still the waves ......Read the rest...

...Our Castilian castle, an Iberian stronghold affixed onto clay shores destined to be capsized by tragedy’s tidal waves Our steeple’s lips grazed the crystalline expanse, before turquoise ......Read the rest...

...No matter what you do in samsara in the effort to improve samsara, improve yourself, improve others, it’s still samsara. All effort, all improvement, never leaves the wheel, but that doesn......Read the rest...

...Master Longchenpa’s heart advice is simple yet profound; that everything we perceive is our mind’s projection, and thus delusion, that everything we experience is in flux, temporary and not soli......Read the rest...

...“I was frolicking up a staircase made of clouds only to end up muzzled in a circus ” I explain to Lola - my puzzled therapist “Your rational faculty seem to be calloused by your crippling cata......Read the rest...

...END, Truth, Pain, Life The beauty in the death of life lies in the life of death. I sigh in my mortal flesh Of my mortal thoughts and ask Should I remind you of your true nature and your pursuit......Read the rest...

...Take me to Nirvana to taste the kiss of Samsara. Wipe all the traces of my bad Karma so I can hug the heart of Dharma. For your beauty, oh heavenly is like the blazing light of dawn! So s......Read the rest...

...In the pages of history there's a baffling mystery about the passing of the crew since eighteen ninety two. Bright stars turned to dim whether fat or slim, no one's young, no one's old, t......Read the rest...