Poems
These poems were submitted for a workshop of Buddhist poetry on January 31st 2020. Some are direct responses to the year of Covid, others offer more general reflections on life and living. Some speak directly of the dharma, the Buddha’s teaching, others simply reflect Buddhist themes of impermanence and interdependence, suffering and compassion and the emptiness of all experience.
After the event, the website will be open to receive further submissions. Watch this space!
- Letting go
- Mindful Steps
- Thoughts on Beauty
- When
- *EMANATE*
- The Gum Tree
- There is no Sutta for this moment
- The streams and mountains beckon this old traveler
- This paper thin reality peels away
- What is this moment?
- Saving Yourself
- For the Time Being
- Power Astray
- Nature of the Self
- DHARMATA
- LET ME LET GO
- IT’S UP TO YOU
- BuddhaDust
- You learn to bake an apple pie
- When the Wierd-o tells you
- Who am I?
- An immigrant nurse’s last message amid covid-19 pandamic in ‘Queen’sLand’:
- As we sit in isolation
- Ode to a Pilgrimage
- Life in 2020
- Buddhism
- Buddhism
- Love to be just like cat!
- Echo of bodies gone
- Trees
- Staying in the Bamboo Forest.
- Broad Smiles
- Positive Mindset
- Mindfulness in Breathing
- 2020
- One million and one things that could happen tomorrow
- Don’t Know Mind
- If 2020 was a mirror
- Two-twenty, a runcible year:
- Moments in 2020
- Storm
- Jacaranda storm
- Meditation with a butterfly
- A Gentle Reminder
- Touching Earth
- Warrumbungles
- Liquid Joy
- The Die
- Pursuit
- Sisyphus
- A Butterfly Effect
- Spiritual and Sacred
- Reflection on the Year 2020
- Heavenly Glen
- Inner Explore
- the way winds within
- the farmer with feet in the earth
- many enter the woods
- When Mara comes knocking on your door
- Breath
- Rivers
- Tsunami
