Category: Lyre
Lyric Poetry of W. B. Yeats converted to “Vajrayana in Verse.” Forty poems plus Room 502: Refuge for the Unborn. Reflections on Buddhist themes of emptiness and transience.
for Jeanne my Shakti
whose beauty was my recognition
- List of Conversions
Refuge for the Unborn
Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse
forty poems plus one
Poems in chronological order, following Yeats’ collections
Titles are for conversions with (numbers) indicating
the original poem in the Collected Works
1893: The Rose
1 The Tantrika and the Terton (18)
2 The Ruse of the World (20)
3 In Misty Oddiyan (24)
4 [...]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar
A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar
for Emma
Whose pale eyes aching blue
drink light from Cathar skies,
and wander at the brink of love
as by the ramparts steep and stark
a pilgrim stands defiantly above
this folly and this human fear -
except the fear that love denies?
The ocean rushing with rough clouds
on Monsegur, at [...]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Preface: Yeats Converted
In Tantra, the mystic lore of the winds, the rainbow body, and so forth, is the raw material for imaginative passions that liberate those who surrender to them. Ultimately, surrender answers to the beauty of its own intensity,
March 6th, 2009 0 comments
