Category: The Arts

  • REBIRTH OF THE SOUL by PATRICK O’BRIEN

    Rebirth of the Soul Desperately trying to exclude, The mists of choice, fury, like from dislike, voices of opinion, All of which rattle, The demons that make the path unstable. Not easily discarded, they are strong and persistent, Unable to be destroyed, Awareness is the only weapon, It can keep them at bay.

  • FOUR POEMS BY ANGUS OGILVY

    Coruscation Light accentuates dark.   In winter dawns I turn on my lamp and morning rolls over to midnight.   Dark accentuates light.   Relinquishing gloom I am dazzled by the lustre of the universe.   It doesn’t matter that the house burns down in the night in a preemptive attack on murk.   It…

  • Teahouse Blossom by Shelagh Gardiner

                                 

  • Out of my mind, unique falling … by Anne H

    One of many of my “Thought – Explosions” ….. : Stay. Nothing. A while. How long does it take to stay a while? How much do you have to investigate? Stay. Nothing. Blindness covers the night. Daylight  is a grey mess of everything. Stay. Nothing. What’s the price? Forever staying? None ever said. Will say.…

  • Leaf By Mustapha Zaidi

    Immortal leaf, eternal life Don’t be afraid my friend, death is just a belief. Nothing has been born, nothing will die, even not a leaf. Your fears will leave, if in your thoughts you don’t believe. Don’t you see that everyone and everything is immortal? A leaf never leaves life, for it is life, and…

  • Bring Sickness onto the Path by Ani Karma Tsultrim

    The time of “being sick” is a precious retreat. The uncertainty of not knowing what will be opens the experience of vivid nowness. That is the life as it really is – moment by moment – not knowing what will be. That is emptiness in which everything is possible, in which we are able to…

  • The Unbearable Love Poem (Manjushri’s song) by Ani Tsering Paldron

    My mistress is this unbearable tenderness And my goal Is never to be parted from her Night and day, and every second of my life, In a close and unique embrace. In the unbearable aspect There is the certainty of death, The immeasurable space of parting; In the tenderness There is you and all beings…

  • Nomad Dharma King by Madeline Schreiber

    This small poem is inspired by HHK’s great kindness. ************************************************************ Thank you for welcoming us into your Nomadness You offer us a vast and open field We can expand our hearts and breathe in sanity Free to roam we like the colours                        Many browns and greens Your nomadness, compared to the mechanicals Is vast…

  • House of Meringue by David Gardner

    Whip up the liquid it will soon be hard, Three little pigs have run out of lard, Ivory towers killed many an elephant, Nepotism for the arrogant. Round and round the garden like a busy bee, All those petal journeys to bring honey to me. I jumped upon a lily pad to watch the ripples…

  • Awake in the Dark by Colin Moore

    Night, and the streets hum with desires hurrying to be met.  A dog chases it’s own tail as The uprooted hungry gather under street lights, Sifting the bin bags for yesterday’s food. Ego is loose in the dreams of the sleeping.  The signs are everywhere but it can’t be found.  The dawn star is not…

  • Devotion by Isabel Rodrigues

      Wind blows Mountain stays. Thoughts flow, Ego lost, in a human chain

  • Two Haiku

    On Meditation gently apply heat bubbles will surface slowly boiling suddenly by Tharlam Gyamtso ————————————————————— Way up north there are some frozen lakes like mirrors. I do not blame them. by Minna Stenroos

  • Passing by Shelagh Gardiner

    Change nurtures The shades and folds of kindly harmonies Where a full tapestry makes port, Woven from the quiet rituals of shared days. But time, being the master of all change, In every living thing, In its own time Wrenches a baleful sound, Intrudes on innocence, Darkening what comes after. Scoured of every comfort, The…

  • May the Jewel of Compassion Arise in the Lotus of your Heart by David Gardner

    Observing passing objects dissolve in liquid time, Meandering poems emerging through the rhythm of the rhyme, May, a month of blooming, transient flowers depart, Arise, compassion in the lotus of your heart, Nowhere is everywhere if you lose your strength, Inward looking thoughts have immeasurable length, Perhaps an education built on better floors, Abandoning coercion,…

  • Snapshots from Journey to Sikkim by Marion Knight

    These poems are impressions gleaned from my experience of going on retreat and pilgrimage to Sikkim. I cannot speak of the retreat as it is clear that each retreatant has their own individual retreat, their own journey and it is a deeply personal path. I can say however that, seven months on, I find that,…

  • The Beggar by Laxmi Prasad Devkota translated from the Nepali by Albert Harris

    THE BEGGAR (BIKHARI)   1 Look! – here comes a beggar, limping with every step,                      His eyes raised, pathetic, adept. A dense sadness in the silence, the light!             The string of life he plucks is worn from ages kept. In the yard with the sunshine bright!             On one point a round…

  • A Poem for Rinpoche by Maribel González.

    The intention of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is none other than to benefit all. If when relating to great masters I get a different result it’s only because of my past deeds The nature of all phenomena is empty and as a mirage all appears. Depending on many causes and conditions also my emotions, confusion and doubts arise.…