by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | BU, EN, SA
How to be a Buddha Just walk along and pay attention to The brutal facts around you. Notice them. Enlightenment is waiting in the stew Of life. If Jesus passes, touch his hem. If not, take note of ordinary things And see if they will cure you. They just might. A...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2020 | BU, EN
Blankness for Sale as Enlightenment The Buddha stands in golden skirts with sight Of toenails underneath. Above his waist Black’s lacquer torso brings the dynamite Of revelation. He has been erased Not just by gold and lacquer darkness: he Is broken. There below...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2020 | AS, BU, CH, JE, SA
Petaled Salvation An emperor or any man must grope His mumbling way if he would go as pure As Buddha or as Christ. The slightest hope Is offered. Jesus holds out just one sure Path forward into holiness. “Go sell All, all you have and give it to the...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2020 | BU, CA, KI
The New Purrusalem My kitten steps across my flooring tiles And even though they are the blandest bland, A space of beige like wedding chapel aisles, Tiles turn transparent gold, become the strand Of Heaven leading to the throne of Him Who made her beauty with a...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BU
Serenity Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem As if a sacred nothing were a kind Of gift, Gautama left his palace, went To wander in the world’s ways and to find Enlightenment adrift on...
by phillipw | Nov 28, 2019 | AL, BU, LO, SE
Phenomenal .A kiss is more than lips, spit, tongues and teeth .Luxuriating in a bedroom’s heat, .Exploring to blue veins and nerves beneath .Conventions recognized by skin. The beat — .Against the ribcage in each chest — of hearts...
