Category: Poetry

  • REVEALING MANJUSHRI

         The Vajrakilaya Puja of the Khon Lineage of the Sakyapa Tradition;  Sakya Centre, India     Message: Hello, Here is a poem which fits with your Many Roads Poetry Section. It is written for my teacher, His Holiness Sakya Trizin.    Revealing Manjushri   The deity, deep in its realm   of pure…

  • POETRY BY DAN CAVIN

    Rainbows or The Ballad of Charlie MacRae     Many think when a rainbow hangs over the hill That it harbours a crock full of gold, A deity worshipped by those who believe That love can be purchased or sold.   Sir James had a beautiful house in the glen, And when he was forty…

  • A PRAYER TO AVERT NUCLEAR WAR

    “A Prayer to Avert Nuclear War” Posted on May 19, 2013 by jenspeternielzen Namo Guru Ratnatraya!   To the Teacher and the Three Jewels, I bow. True leader of the golden age — Crown of the Shakyas! Second Buddha, Prince of Oddiyana, Lake-Born Vajra, Bodhisattvas, eight closest spiritual heirs, The high noble ones, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Vajrapani, and the others! Twenty-one…

  • 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,…