Stupa Poems - Poems about Stupa

Ordu-Baliq, the City of the Court

...Birthed from the central river of holy kings 
The court city guarded by stone rings 
A marriage of light and might 
Its stupa shone bright 
With divine 
Light 
As life's sign 
A heart of dayli...

Categories: stupa, history, marriage, places, political,
Form: Rhyme

Lost Cities of Indus Vale

...I hail thee ruins of Indus Vale! 
With scented rhyme, with scented gale
Come on from world of mortal dead! 
O come and lively wind inhale! 
More ancient than the pyramids
That rule on ancient Eg...

Categories: stupa, adventure, god, history, loneliness,
Form: Ode

Sotoba Komachi

...Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first kanji means "stupa" (the dome of a shrine) while the second kanji means "belle" or "beautiful woman." So the title may be interpreted as something like "Beauty's Shrine" or "Shrine to Beauty." Kan'ami was the fir...

Categories: stupa, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

To Mahakanadarawa With Love Ii

...You bring me 
The elegance
Your exquisite 
Calm me down

You nurture the 
Fields of mine
You make my
People full of bliss

You stand for
My security at night
Alongside the moon

You tak...

Categories: stupa, love, nature,
Form: Blank verse

Lesson In a Temple

...Walking on the sandy yard…
Protected from the burning sun by the shelter of the Bo leaves…rustling:
Dancing in the wind. 
Stray dogs walk about; in this place like heaven. 
Ponies graze under the...

Categories: stupa, culture, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse

Varanasi

...Pilgrims and vagrants throng its Ghats
Beggars, seers and mendicants all,
Shrill peal of bells, the chant of hymns
And waters holy do enthrall.

Shiva’s trident nudges the soul
The Dhamak Stupa...

Categories: stupa, life,
Form: Rhyme

Zendicant

...The hillock, the bell
The swept terraces
The swept minds.

The white wood hall
The reflecting pools
The reflecting minds.

The weedless gardens
both in brain and curtilage.

The temple gro...

Categories: stupa, leaving, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Wishes For a Soft Landing

...wishes for a soft landing

I bought a Pashmina in a
a tight little shop in Lhasa; 
the scarf was soft as feathers.

It was woven in Kashmir
by skilled artisans
with peaceful faces.

I walke...

Categories: stupa, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Boudhanath Stupa

...Hands brush
Against 
Spinning prayer 
Wheels
Gentle wishes 
Drift among
snap-happy 
Tourists
Who Forget
This moment


Joyful children 
dodging
Wandering priests
Met by 
Disapproval

...

Categories: stupa, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Poet's Death

...Early morning
A kit of poet pigeons fly
In pursuit of metaphors

They turn around Swoyambhunath
Releasing deep breathe out of anxiety,
Facing noble eyes of that stupa
They discuss something,
...

Categories: stupa, creation, death, poems, poets,
Form: Free verse

Ashes Fall From the Joss Stick: Finger Bone

...My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I was their only child. I ...

Categories: stupa, death,
Form: Prose Poetry