[ARTS]: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

[Tom A.]

ARTS: Big and Little Poetry--free verse, any verse.

Over billions of years
The universe
Spun up elements
Some evolved into fire

Some say…

“So,
over billions of years
It’s just how
The universe evolved
And spun up fire:

Fire evolved
With the inescapable
Greed and desire
To consume
Everything
And anything

Tortured because
The universe
Has no care
If a fire is satisfied

Tortured
With the inescapable
Greed and desire
To consume
Everything
And anything”

Yes that is true.

And…

Fire can be contained
Settling into one place

In this moment
The fire is perfect
Complete
And whole
Not waiting
To greedily
Latch on to
Everything and
Anything

Fire is just itself
Never tortured
Never waiting

Because…

Fire IS the billions of years
That evolved itself into fire

Fire is earth... And water
Fire is air... And solid
Fire is heat... And cold
Consuming and consumed

The fire is the universe
Forever satisfied
Even if not.

Flowing upward
The fire naturally lets go
(It has no choice)
Of its inescapable
Greed and desire
Not torturing itself
To consume everything
And anything
And the moonlit sky
Does not obstruct it’s
Dangerous flames and
Poisonous smoke
To flow upward
And float away

(Please kindly look past the pretentiousness and length. It’s not a subtle “poem” or whatever it is, I’m not smart enough for subtlety.)

Gassho,
Tom

Sat


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[Rich]

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sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

We are Ukrainian

Sky green with moon, sky
Moving up in clouds dense
Gray, gray with brown, gone
Mad today nothing,
No Winter. Ice opposite
To oppose living possibly
Things to witness touching
Weep for Lives suffering
Color for the sun? Much
Death of such Pain as this.
Is this pain. Who can say,
"I am Ukrainian?" on plain
Beneath breathe, Sunset
Blaze, look Into horizon
Dusty clouds Scared.
Life, Eternal not?

Gassho
sat/ lah
Tai Shi


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[Zenkon]

rushing rivers and,
tranquil streams,
all waters meet,
in the same ocean

Gassho

Zenkon

[Zenkon]

seeing that I want,
I can stop wanting.
seeing that I hate,
I can stop hating.
seeing that I love,
I can stop loving,
and just see

Gassho

Zenkon