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JADE FLOWER BUDDHA
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
In the dynasty of our impoverished love Like master and servant, I to you Couldn’t serve, so I depart as a Luminous white horse, across the fields In the deep firm breath of The dreams that I hold dear, you do not I carry the Eastern skies In my bosom,…
TILL YOU CAME TO ME LAST NIGHT IN A DREAM
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Tonight then, is a rare event For all souls wander somehow To the opening clouds Where the sun spills rainbows When I went away, you were still unmarried Though after the festivals, I knew You were gone, tomorrow who knows What Mountains may separate us But I know we share…
BEING HUMAN
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I having loved ever since I was a child A few things, the treasured taste of words The affections of philosophy And the aesthetics of the future I, having shyness of poverty Studied the mystics perennial I allied myself to ideals that never die Like progress, revolution, art The empowerment…
Things Left Behind
Originally posted on A Blog Less Traveled:
Mirror of Preception The sound of the wind carves out memories Swirling in my head eroding time’s defenses I walk through the silent rooms of my mind Searching for the things you have left behind The sound of your shadows enter my thoughts Shrouding my soul, darkening sky…
HERO’S DEPARTURE
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
It’s little I care what path I take Since the world-soul guides me And where my departure leads For heart-break’s arrival is my passage To another kind of life, I must go I must leave, and off somewhere Who knows what’s in my escape? It’s little I know what’s in…
WHITE JADE, FEMALE POET, ORANGE PITCHER
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Heaven bless the babe Orphaned by divinity What queer books she will read Granted, to be a poet isn’t easy When she is older, she will say: “Till the Spring, my murdered lover Till our souls meet in another form The language of my foolishness Will be the bridge I…
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