Doesn't poetry save lives?

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Flowers wrapped in flowers divine ~

For Thay
(forever alive  in Plum Village) ~

Flowers wrapped in flowers divine,
petals loving the whorls inside,
the whorls knowing the colors divine,
a vision seeking a vision undefined,
without a beginning without an end,
a breath which stays, a breath which stops,
the skies know infinity -
that which is born never dies. 

The stones ask - am I  the river?
The waves ask - am I the water?
Life asks - am I the flower?
Thay says - ask not the question,
your life is ever-present, for love never dies,
and every bit of you is made of me.
You will cherish my words, my life,
for they are yours and made of thee.

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