Tag: Buddhism

Buddhas

Sometimes
I bring up this image
Just so the line of Buddhas
Can remind me of compassion
And the vibrant colours
Embolden my will for passion

In this realm
Of time and change
And buddhas long forgotten

I sit
Then breathe
To quiet mind
Of learnings misbegotten

This land once rose
And then it fell
By men of mind besotten

We have landed
On the moon
We’ve trained our eyes
Upon the stars
Looked deep inside
The sun’s corona

We’ve gone as fast
As sound and cheetahs
Slowed down time
To see a bullet
Sped it up
To watch grass grow

More than the kisses
More than the words
More than the moments

I miss
The tingling
Resonance
Of your touch

Of gold and gilt
And opalescence
The shrines we build
To gods and money

Here have I resided
For a hundred generations
Constructed for Gautama
In honour of compassion
And the light of self-reflection

Gather here in peace
Quieting your mind
Listen for my voice
The wisdom of the ancients

The world provides
Such an abundance
Of the strange
And unknown

I try not to let
My ignorance
Confine my experience

On a journey
To a strange land
With strange customs
Where nothing seemed familiar

I re-encountered Buddha
Long obscured for me
Made strange by the confines
Of my culture familiar

I dream
Of guardians
In goldenrod armour

In countenance: fierce
But whose hearts
Have the gentleness
Of brushed cotton

I become attached
To what was
Replay it
Over and over

Wishing it
Each time
To be

Different