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Poetry - All
Lyrical reflections on love, spirituality, nature, and human connection in 7 books.


Ode to Joy
I stand at the edge of the south end lake
Where the coy Koi are koi-ing
Through the green leafy hydrophytes.
They rise near the surface
Flashing golden orange
Where the noontime sunlight
With reflections all around
Dance in a quantum field
Of earth, air, water and…
Whatever else floats along
And joins the cosmic band,
Joins the coy Koi koi-ing joy
As though Escher’s and Pollack’s souls
Are cocreating in the Now
A living ever-moving art.
3 worlds splatter and land
Thrown at ra


Dharamsala Lullabye
It's the first rain since reaching India,
the first rain in Dharamsala.
Thunder cracks over McLeod Ganj
and loudly roars and rumbles
downhill to Dharamsala
and across the Kangra Valley.
The lightning is dramatic,
a sharp, bright dorje cutting
through the thickly clouded sky
into the darkness of the night.
The leaves rustle noisily in the wind
like the clamor of a thousand small cymbals,
and the rain, like a drummer, beats loudly
on the tin and slate-tiled rooftops.
The cool,
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