Buddhist and meditation Poetry:

To submit poetry, simply email it to Buddhism@MTFreethinkers.org Be sure to mention how it should be formatted, as that stuff sometimes gets altered in email.

Untitled by Harrison Mitchell

Your mind, Buddha's mind
One mind, always
Mind becomes Buddha
I, me, my, GONE!

Only compassion
Only don't know

What am I?
Don't know

SERENITY by Chelsie Dwello

White glowing serenity falls from the sky
It hits the ground without making a sound
But I still hear it in my soul
One flake becomes two
Becomes three
Becomes four
How ironic that something so cold, so sterile
Can still warm my heart

Ice on a pond, outlined by tiny white flakes of snow
Paints a picture of such beauty
I am mesmerized by it’s pure whiteness

Snow falls to the ground, cleansing what was once
unclean
Purifying something once tainted by three seasons
worth of life

A new beginning
Starting over
Out of darkness comes light
Something black now becomes white

White crystals falling from the sky
Tiny little holograms
Reflections of everything around me
I see all that ever is
Ever was
Ever could be

Spring becomes summer
Summer becomes fall
Fall becomes winter
And snow will fall

I look out the window
And I see a sea of white
I am reminded of the pure white nirvana of my
consciousness revealed

This paper is white
Clouds are white
Snow is white
This paper is a cloud
The cloud is snow
I am the snow

Night hiking, eight miles in the dark,
snowing.

How silly!
All of us, foolish!

searching for that which is no other than, finding it
other than.

huh.

ha.

Snow flakes on my eyelashes, wet hair.

My tracks fill in, and soften, behind me.

Kevin by Joshua Lamson

Saw Kevin off today- we exchanged gifts, his

	polyester shirt for    my
	coyote jawbone.   Shared

raisins for luck

against the next few months- he'll

	be a thousand miles away, and tan. I'll be here still, then it'll be

the other   way around

hanging out and moving on world makes world, seamless, missing and being missed.

The Difference Between Man and the Animals by Joshua Lamson

The difference between Man and the animals
is that a doe, caught in a barbed wire fence,
will thrash and flail, and tear herself to bits.

While a man, so caught, might thrash and flail,
and tear himself to bits, or he might

Pause.
Collect himself,
and,
with bloody hands, quietly begin to work.

Back to Top