IDA NADI
...We wash our dead, our dead!
We make paper bags, alembics, sandpaper and words from their bones
The abstract reality of the walls - the chandelier of the sky - the sound reflected in the water
We m...
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Categories:
steles, death,
Form: Free verse
Jeremy Puma
...Just a passerby who wrote some books of wisdom
Enquiring into the Way towards heaven's bright kingdom
Reading ancient steles in a moden day light
Even using Zen as a reading stone for clear ins...
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Categories:
steles, dedication, spiritual, teacher, thank
Form: Acrostic
Alone In Scary Silence
...The moon veiled in a web darkness;
bejeweled in radiance starkness,
to delve into the dark only the prince of darkness.
I was alone in the silence weaves,
while childish, I walk thr...
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Categories:
steles, allusion, child, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only th...
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Categories:
steles, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
Magic Ruins
...in the rusty tide animating bones
of deluded gods reaching for the lie
etched on eroded steles in dead lisps
licking flames of seers tossing guts
filled with blue and red fascists
infecting the...
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Categories:
steles, art, christian, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse