I’m not free, She said, I can’t fly free Among the clouds. Gravity is oppressing me And holding […]
Buddhism
My newest poem, Are You Free?, Is now available at the Free Verse Revolution blog: Are You Free? […]
Suffering exists And it can be overcome The message is clear See the source of suffering Follow the […]
Sweet Siddhartha Pampered prince, Living in supposed happiness Behind the gilded gates Of your father. Small suspicions sprout […]
Not in ecstasy, Nor anger, nor agony. Find the middle path ‘Tween ascetic and excess Free from suffering […]
You can look in your books, Old and new, Of beginnings and births, Journeys and exiles, Looking for […]
Chaos around you: Be in the world, not of it. Chaos within you: Be still, breath, Be present […]
Driving down the poison highway Through the nightmares of my youth: Saccharine poetry, suicidal thoughts; Disastrous experiments with […]
Breath flows in and out Heart beat rhythm slowing down All there is is now. 4/6/17 Poem #9 […]
Allen was in Asgard reciting America and Singing the Buddhist Bible Blues for All-Father Odin While Bobby and Baldr compared […]
John W. Leys 