Short Tibetan Poems

Huck Finn
        East of Eden
    The Age of Chivalry
Tibetan Book of the Dead
               Finis...

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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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("Eye of Storm" - aka "Tibetan Blue Poppy", 2017, original encaustic)

Eye of Storm

No matter where you go, there you are.

(11/5/23)...

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bamboo butterfly
i see the
blue flames
dancing in
the center of your
Tibetan eyes
upon your wings
take me
to that
quiet place
where the
spirit lives...

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"Zzzzzzz!" goes a bothersome bee up close, yet so
  Eerily s  t  i  l  l was the meditating Tibetan monk;
  Nothing seems to faze him in a trance-like state.


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The wild yaks with their hair all a flow,
Were dancing on a Tibetan plateau,
They were just told by the ranger
Their species no longer in danger
As their herd was starting to grow....

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mango and bamboo
a combo mumbo jumbo
ancient aroma
bamboo o o o o o
mangoo and bamboo o o

Tanka meanings: A Japanese poetry form, medical painting, Tibetan  body health equilibrium....

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The Tibetan Yak came to town to set us all straight.
We are hard-working fellows, our work ethic great.
We do not stand around using idle chit-chetter.  
Please change the other meaning of Yak for the better....

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The Tibetan paint 
To a human physic and
Good For the spirit  
Lovely ancient traveling
From India to Far East 

In poetry forms
The spirit of poetry 
Should be a clear art
Mapping for poems lovers
Eenhancive method...

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Ideas
or wordcraft
There’s times
you must choose

The style
or substance
Which one
left askew

One choice
or the other
Becomes 
zero-sum

Delivering 
prescience
If words
—on the run

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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I see through your naked soul,
 
like laser beam across spring waters.
 
thunder-strike my liverless matter,
 
with sight of thor-like spirit.
 
I grace the grassy Himalayas,
 
like emperor in a royal dynasty
 
And master of my canines,
 
for I am  the Tibetan Mastif....

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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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                           ~~


                 Sandalwood incense
                 Tibetan prayer wheel tuning
                 Bonzai tree smiling


                           ~~~              

                 

                 

                       June 20, 2020
                        9:30pm PST 

                      Poem # 1,259
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                               Just a
                                 Cat
                        Lying listless
                On the floor 
        Spreads on all four After a good meal;
   A tossed Tibetan bag! Sight to behold;
 Oh! That serene grace
At peace She rests;
Zen eyes withhold secrets;
 Tell-tale
     A
          L
                E

    
          
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Lady Tara rolls the dice

Lady Tara tolls the bell,
Mongst  demons of the Buddist hell
Greed and avarice of the psyche
Tibetan wheels do mortals strike,
And greed is sure to tell,
Pointless mortal avarice,
Does dwell,
But not in paradise:}
Just hell,
Go get yeself a slice:{
The greedy buggered well,
Try it once or twice,
Till ego rings the bell,
Compliance rolls the dice….

Don Johnson...

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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.

(first published in my 4th book of poems, BEGINNER'S MIND, 2019)...

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The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his dissertation,
"And a 'lama' is a holy man of Tibetan derivation.
But what I cannot understand," says he, 
"Is why it's not left up to me
To solve a problem that's become the worst case
Of mispronunciation in the history of creation,
And spell it 'yama', like it sounds, in the first place!"
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Intimate temple in my bedroom, my sanctuary
Silent, sublime, a shrine for hopes and prayers
A peaceful corner honouring the spirit world
Tibetan relics that speak gently to my heart
Sacred sage, crystals and burning candles
Rolling veil of burning incense over nightly ritual
A virtual fountain releasing blessings to the world
Honourable holy mecca for my soul



Submitted for contest WORLD VISION POETRY sponsored by VERMILLION SCYTHE - November 16, 2017

AP: Honorable Mention 2020...

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