Short Tibet Poems

Phoenix moonrise
Hang your wings
On the walls of Tibet
Let your wings air dry
Beneath this liquid sun...

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tibet's ahimsa
calmly exudes its pulse of
peace and non-violence



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022...

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China is becoming
A member of the European Union
So they can bail everyone out
All the good jobs
Will be taken
By Chinese immigrants
Mostly from Tibet...

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(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 THE HEART OF IT, 2015)...

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(Nagpa in Tibet, 2017)

You and I

We’re not human 
you and I
said dreamer
to his dream.
We’re of Life
so indefinable
exactly as we seem.

(first published in my 3rd book of poems, Sun Made Flesh and Fiber, 2019)
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The Proud Lhasa Apso

With hair golden, thick, lavishly long
Praised in Tibet with dance, poem and song
You’re the proud Lhasa Apso
How you take naps on one’s lap so!
With refined, gentle folk you shall always belong

4/22/23...

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Turbulent takeoff, tension thick
Tongue-tied terror, toxic trip
Tropical tornado tempestuous threat
Timbuktu touchdown, tomorrow Tibet.




Begin with a letter
T is letter chosen
Sponsored 
by:
Angela Tune 
02/07/2022...

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Pakistan is weeping now
weeping Burmese burnt dreams
weeping Cubans in Darfur
weeping Venezuelans
North Korea is weeping still
weeping Iranian uranium dream
weeping Chinese in Tibet
weeping Russians
the world wails
	    waning
and We sleep to dream...

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cold harsh desolate terrain
where life to us seems hostile and cruel
gardens painstakingly nurtured
with minimal returns

so much effort so little gain
yet a most appreciative and spiritual people
atop their mountains so close to God



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 13, 2022...

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Two boys of Tibet

There was a young boy of Tibet
Liked Swimming, but not getting wet
He said he would try
To swim when it’s dry
What a silly young boy of Tibet
 
Another young boy of Tibet
Had a Snowman he kept as a pet
That’s abominable said I
Yeti, couldn’t see why
Elusive was that Boy of Tibet...

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There was a girl from Tibet
With plans for the man she met
She loved him she said
And took him to bed
And now she drives his Corvette

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Entry: "A New Bawdy or Humorous Limerick" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
(3/6/2022)
(4)...

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(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 smile
on the faces of a few
gave me what can’t be bought,
and in that moment I drained the full cup
I’d been carefully holding
and filled it anew
with light.

(2019)...

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"The world is, as we are" - Yogi Maharishi.



Everyone will know if you have won a jackpot,
but a few will know if you have found God
in the misty mountains of Tibet.

People can tell you that you are doing fine,
while they know your mortgage will run
you bankrupt.

We know others' lives more and better than we know ours.

Welcome to the society we've made for ourselves......

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A Man from Tibet

There was a young man from Tibet
Who had wanted to become a vet.                                                                            But bitten by the hog,                                                                                          And chased by the dog,                                                                                        He took to his bed instead....

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maybe see the deepest valley in the ocean
or Mars
maybe see the Lincoln and Vietnam Memorial
or Tibet
maybe see the oldest living tree on the planet
or the Parthenon
maybe see Bethlehem and the Wailing Wall
or a volcano
maybe see distant relatives I've never known
or yesterday...

or you again
maybe see both of you again, before I die
before I die again...

3/18/13
Tim Ryerson
Nette Onclaud's 'Wanderlust' contest...

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The legendary land of light
veiled by snow and sand
is one of many Eastern myths
we've yet to understand.

From the golden Gobi desert
to the mountains of Tibet
live the guardians of Earth
to whom we owe a debt.

Protected by the force of thought
when ego is cast out
the password is goodwill to man
no more, no less, no doubt.

The legend of Shambhala
is very much alive
and said to house the knowledge
to help mankind survive....

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TIBET

My country is my heart.
The land is my body.

People came with sharp machines.
Maiming my limbs,
Dismembering my insides.

Without permession,
Without pay. 

My soul is forced out of my body.
My blood turns rancid, poisonous.

They gouge deep wounds over my body.
My tears are as rain.

I want to protect me.
I feel too weak.

I can’t breathe.
I can’t move.

I, so powerless under Chinese violation.
I am in excruciating pain.

Can you hear my cry?...

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    Why is it so pleasant to think back in time
         ‘specially as we near the end of the line

     Do we treasure our innocence, our youthful naivete
          or unlike Bessie the cow, we know what comes next

     Stupid she stands, flies near her eyes congregate
          I would not be a cow for all the tea in Tibet 

      And yet… Why can’t I just live for today, like all the songs say
          I guess tomorrow’s too gloomy, ergo I run far away
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