March 2024
Can I See?
There's that moment between breaths, when the rain seems to all but stop and hover in the air, when you realize that you have had entire diatribes in your mind…
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November 2019
A Love Letter to Me
You were born and loved. Your own body wanted you to die when you were only days old. Surgery, a white cat, and love saved you. At thirteen a tiny bug tried to…
November 2019
I am lost
I am lost Nothing to see Nothing to touch Nothing to hold To taste To feel To be No walls make this prison cell No bars on no windows No chains on my ankles No…
November 2019
Some Random Poems
I’ve seen this before I’ve dreamed through the clouds and set the stars alight. I’ve stepped from mountain to mountain and splashed in oceans on planets far…
December 2018
The Fey's Whisper
Break free the coarse rope Untether this being from the base Mount the steed and find thy drum Tonight the fey offer you hope No sword or shield can protect…
March 2018
Machig's Last Instructions
Mind itself, \ Has no support, has no object: Let it rest in its natural expanse without any fabrication. When the bonds \ are released, You will be free,…
March 2017
Guru Rinpoche Day
Tashi Delek, Happy Guru Rinpoche Day :) ཧཱུྂ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔ hung orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔ pema gesar dongpo la…
April 2016
For Love of Darkness
Let drop the anchor pull in the sails damp the lantern this night is done for me Darkness, wicked lover of lonely souls, caresses me I sleep upon the waves of…
January 2016
The Court of Flowers
The woman’s skin, the color of alabaster and gold, opened as the true-silver blade touched her flesh. She, a warrior who had stood for countless ages, fell to…
November 2015
Vajravidarana Mantra
Learn this, the short: om namaścaṇḍavajrakrodhāya | om hulu hulu tiṣṭha tiṣṭha bandha bandha hana hana amṛte hūṃ phaṭ and after you have samadhi with it, this…
September 2015
Precious Master
"My father is the pure awareness of rigpa, Samantabhadra, My mother, the space of all things, Samantabhadri, My line, the indivisibility of awareness and…
September 2015
Manjusri
, a prominent…
August 2015
Stages of Mahamudra
!( Tilopa At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In mid-course, like the Ganges It flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great…
July 2015
Journey To The Temple
You are walking up a gently sloping trail, the trail is covered with dirt, soft green grass, and small smooth stones. The grade is easy, and your feet fall…
July 2015
A Look at Amber
I found this art on DeviantArt and I am so drawn to it. I first read the Roger Zelazny Amber novels in junior high and I immediately fell in love with the…