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Tibetan Incense Stick
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Buddhist TIBETAN INCENSE STICK
Plumes of snow were blowing
off the high peaks of Tibet.....
incense sticks on the mountain
altars to the Buddha.
Eddies swirled in the
mountain streams..
eternal prayer wheels
actualizing dreams.
(to all Dalai Lamas)
ALTAR OF SACRIFICE
Buddha placed himself
on altar of sacrifice...
the ground by her claws
(Buddha in a life previous to his life as the Buddha
came upon a starving tigress with her 2 cubs..
and laid down in front of her .. to provide her food.
"Greater love hath no one than to lay
down his life for his friend.")
JACK FROST'S SILENT REQUIEM
..the crickets' trill
from their bodies.. cheerful spill
but Jack Frost's scythe....
with his silent requiem
their bodies stills
(the more trees and vines, berry bushes and plants we grow, the less
cruel Jack Frost will be... greenery is a Mother Earth weather stabilizer)
COCKATIEL COCHINEAL
Caged the sunyellowwinged cockatiel
Crushed for redcoat dye the cochineal
SAPPHO WEARS SAFFRON
The white orange blossom
has become the orange orb fruit
and reborn, like California poppies,
Sappho wears monks' saffron
ANGKOR WAT
The Buddha cherished more Angkor Wat's
green vines
than the nonliving temple stones
-saiom shriver-
