Tibet Poems - Poems about Tibet

...Spectacular would not even begin to describe the trip around the island A whole day of fun and excitement with such a wonderful guide A visual smorgasbord of things to see , vibrant foliage on one ......Read the rest...

...“Dragons don’t live up to the talk. I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”, Opined the jealous Jabberwock, “Of the scaly, lummox dragon.” This foul fiend then, most inhumanely, Pausing to munch ......Read the rest...

... I melt into the plural sky its rippling tableaus of tomorrow underneath open light waves see-saws the labyrinth like Delphi tendrils crossing channels all the changing faces played automati......Read the rest...

...where are the old wanderers, whatever happened to Steve> a different holy book in hand every week, the wise man of the thrift store. “we just aren’t made for these times.” you’ve eithe......Read the rest...

...In tertiary times, when two continents adrift Titanically collided to tectonically uplift The gasping ocean floor Resurrected up once more Left the water for the land; Five miles high it made it......Read the rest...

...(Girl playing, Tibet, 2009) Memories of a Slave The world, at least my world, is nothing if not predictable. There are moments however when the Sun breaks through and a real unexpected......Read the rest...

...(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,......Read the rest...

...(Girl in Tibet, 2009) Faces of Death Like at birth The faces we make And meet at death Are not only our own But each unique Some of us go kicking and screaming Some passively sa......Read the rest...

...(On the road to Kailash, Tibet, 2009) There and Back Again Pilgrimage An ideal place Seen through An ideal lens And so we go! The journey of all souls In endless procession To......Read the rest...

...(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 ......Read the rest...

...(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 s......Read the rest...

...(Upper slopes of Emeishan, China, 2017) Six Pilgrim Poems In the Park Belly full of chi sky with gentle rain waters dancers like flowers My Dzogchen Realization “Ah,......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...

...with white gloves carries it on his shoulders, - the sand shatters- -in the dance of the heat the eagles wait solemnly leave my body soft in the air, leave it up up on the tower of silenc......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...