Category: Refuge
Poems on the union of desire and emptiness.
for Jeanne my Shakti
whose beauty was my recognition
- Room 502
Room 502 Strands of auburn hair upon the pillow noble profile in October light: How did we come to this, two mystics spun into desire who merged and sank together, ravished and undone? Your gaze is turquoise-shattered light igniting my desire, but can the craving I attain by kisses spilled along your neck, tongue-prayers […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (35 – 40)
35. Two Songs of a Dugpa (C.W. 186, Two Songs of a Fool) I A sleek black cat and snow-white steed eat by my terrace as they need; and both confer upon my face the dignity and elegance of sentient creatures steeped in trance. Arising from my kind of sleep, I contemplate how they reveal […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (28 – 34)
28. Tandem Desire (C.W. 143 The Wild Swans at Coole) With Jeanne, in conversion 9 November 2009 Andalucia The leaves turn in their autumn beauty, The beachside paths are clear, November’s sky mirrors the sea and keeps its silence near. Along the low and lapping shore Glide tandem swans in love. The untimed moment now arrives […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (21 -27)
21. Consort Yoga (C.W. 98 Against Unworthy Praise) One heart in wholeness cannot preserve itself, yet it can break in two and joined in twoness, so reserve the passions of the pair that through exchange of word and glance there runs like ‘silver on a trembling leaf one vein after the next of chance emotion, […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (14 – 20)
14. A Terton to His Beloved (C.W. 56, A Poet to His Beloved) I offer you in reverent mood my secrets and my treasure lore. Wild woman who by passion led entered a wave where moonlight stood and lingered on the terrace bed, to entertain divine delight. Dakini with the gaze of ore, with you […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (7-13)
7. Two Kayas (C. W. 37 The Two Trees) Bodhi, bright essence in the heart under what tree will you realize the bliss known never to depart, diamond light upon your eyes? Nirmanakaya hues five-fold adorn your body, scintillate: this fact is certain to be told and turned into a huge debate. But let your […]
March 25th, 2009 0 comments - Refuge for the Unborn (1 – 6)
Refuge for the Unborn Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse 1. The Tantrika and the Terton (C.W. 18, Fergus and the Druid) Tantrika. This whole eve I have ventured through a dream and seen you tracking forms among the stars: first, the knot in the cord between two whales, one leaping to Andromeda, the other diving […]
March 24th, 2009 0 comments