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

[Kaitan]

Buddha hanging out with Buddha
Buddha crying about Buddha
Buddha crying with Buddha
Buddha helping a Buddha
Buddha scaring Buddha
Buddha carrying Buddha
Buddha being just Buddha
Buddha sitting above Buddha
Buddha discussing with Buddha
Buddha is thinking about Buddha
Buddha thinking a lot about Buddha
Buddha is thinking about Buddha
Buddha thinking about Buddha
Buddha is thinking Buddha
Buddha thinking Buddha
Buddha not thinking Buddha
Buddha dreams with Buddha
Buddha meets another Buddha
Buddha dreams that is not Buddha
Buddha seeks again for another Buddha
Buddha writes a poem about Buddha
Buddha seeks for another Buddha
Buddha can not find Buddha
Buddha meets the Buddha
Buddha Buddha
BuddhaBuddha
Buddhuddha
Buddddha
Buddha

Gassho

stlah, Kaitan

[Jundo]

Buddha hanging out with Buddha
Buddha crying about Buddha
Buddha crying with Buddha
Buddha helping a Buddha
Buddha scaring Buddha
Buddha carrying Buddha
Buddha being just Buddha
Buddha sitting above Buddha
Buddha discussing with Buddha
Buddha is thinking about Buddha
Buddha thinking a lot about Buddha
Buddha is thinking about Buddha
Buddha thinking about Buddha
Buddha is thinking Buddha
Buddha thinking Buddha
Buddha not thinking Buddha
Buddha dreams with Buddha
Buddha meets another Buddha
Buddha dreams that is not Buddha
Buddha seeks again for another Buddha
Buddha writes a poem about Buddha
Buddha seeks for another Buddha
Buddha can not find Buddha
Buddha meets the Buddha
Buddha Buddha
BuddhaBuddha
Buddhuddha
Buddddha
Buddha

[Guest]

as if in a competition
i was
striving for recognition
waste of effort
nothing to win
nothing to compete for
I'm here
existent
all victories have
always
been in hand

Gassho,
Paco
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Christmas War in Palestine

When writing poems
On snowy days, when birds
Come back on winter wings,
We shiver in our cold American

Homes beath of Arab war clouds
With rain withheld upon the desert
Rock dwellings, with dead roses
In villages ravaged by Israeli troops,

Children beg for bread,
Girls with baby dolls round
Campfires, wish for Ramadan
While across borders sing

More children for oil in Menorah
Light with Jewish song,
Why war rages with lamps
Until oil comes to Synagogue

Of God, how many days can
People live without food, where
Palestine was destroyed, and another
War where there's no Peace, treaty

Won with blood from the hospital
Attacks with drones flown
Into buildings of Lebanon,
Why Earth, those Christian's time

In North America, it finds
Buying Greatest Retail Saga
Money changes hands to wealth--
These are Children yet to cry

As Christmas trees bright
With electric lights, flame
With sight on Rohatzu evenings, where
Buddhists sing another Peace

When Black men ring
Bells in windy afternoons
When discount stores
Complete with the biggest sales,

Of toys In history, bitcoin rises
In value, when stocks are sold
In record Booms, another
Satisfied customer buys presents

For familiar US News Reports
Of the greatest volume, sold; ten
Thousand miles away, retail chains,
Snap shut drawers of change.

I sit next to my gifts,
Bought with my Social Security
Allowance, now I remember
Children of Middle Eastern

Wish only for food to fill
Hunger, divided loaves of bread
Of fishes multiplied in magic
From UN trucks across the camps

Roll into wars again, only
To navigate hunger. While children beg
For food, Old men, and women cry
For their family's return to Palestine.

Gassho
lah/sat