"lhasa" poems
I lean against a stucco building
that has a turquoise whale painted
on the sidewalk in front and pop in
a piece of Wrigley’s as vendors
unload eggplant and plump onions,
two women walk past, one isn’t
wearing a bra and the other
should be wearing two,
I see a neighbor listening as three
Jamaican bucket drummers argue over
cigars, my neighbor nods and flips his
Pall Mall into the street, a gal walking
a Lhasa Apso snuffs the cigarette with
her heel, the dog hikes on a crate of
cabbage sitting atop a guitar case;
bravo to you God, a better morning
I could not have lived.
Sep 12, 2016
Sep 12, 2016 at 8:10 AM UTC
Why do I go into the talklamakan desert
To trace the steps of my love
His gentle Buddha like face
Engraved in both
Mind and heart.
I travel with a broken heart.
Why do I go into the talklamakan desert
To see the last places
That my love
Went to.
The memories
Of our coupling
Seared into my being
I travel with a broken heart
Why do I go into the talklamakan desert
To find the disembodied
Soul of my love
Memories of talking about the teachings
Bookmarked in the heart.
I travel with a broken heart.
Why do I go into the talklamakan
Desert
To be reunited with my love
Into a place of souls and demons
It’s night
I sleep next to
A watch tower
Hearing: “nga kayrangla gawpo nebo, I always will!”
Was this the last place he went
I travel with a broken heart.
I dream of the times in Lhasa
When you were still with me
Coupling in the eachothers arms.
Then I hear his voice
“Nga kayrangla gawpo yo nebo, I always will!”
I awake in the middle of the night
In the middle of the talklamakan
I finally see him
Still that monk I loved
But he was undead
I did not care
We embraced
And kissed
Our tounges danced
We both wanted to couple
But he was a zombie
And I was alive.
I hold him
As if he was so precious
I gently kiss him
And I walk into a town
Crying to my self.
I traveled with a broken heart.
Dec 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018 at 7:14 AM UTC
Shagri-La (Lhasa);
now ruined
forever
Jan 10, 2012
Jan 10, 2012 at 7:23 PM UTC
in the beginning
everything was sweet like the tea you sipped.
it was sweet like that little Lhasa puppy we brought home.
in the beginning
everything was forever like the car rides to new boston.
it was forever like supper on an empty tummy.
in the end
everything is dark like that day you left.
it is dark like my chest.
in the end
nothing is certain.
nothing is how it was
in the beginning.
May 31, 2014
May 31, 2014 at 10:05 PM UTC
We have ridden camels
in the Kalahari,
Flew Eagles over Canada,
walked across the Niagra.
We have boated up the
Nile and pierced the
catacombs of Rome.
We made love by the
red rock in Australia.
Our adventures overlap
memory.
We've spun the Sun and
tossed the moon,
walked on coals,
groomed gorillas and
climbed to Lhasa.
We were married in Tibet,
among the Chinese stalls,
made our way to India
and slept with tigers.
The planet swings
as we kiss, and spins
to the rhythm of Joy.
Caroline Shank
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 at 6:28 AM UTC
We were practicing the positions
While love making
“Claudia, would you like to run away with me to Tibet.
I always wanted to be a Lama.
And we will be safe!”
I said that was romantic
But I had commitments
To my art.
But thinking back in the morning
I thought I had nothing here to live for
And I told you that
And that we can live in Tibet.
And idea was that I could teach the monks or locals
As it turned out
We ended up in Lhasa
In a small monastery
We kept to our selves
And you got groomed
The piercings still there
Thank god
We made love regularly
Until we got married and you
Started to study.
I took to sketching
The locals and the other monks
There was one young monk
That I kept sketching
And we started
To have feeling for one another
When became native I. The language
Taught him my karate in front
And soon we ended making out
“You think I am beautiful?” I
Said repeatedly
He said yes and kissed me.
When I wasn’t with you or him
I drew ****** sketches of this beautiful young man.
You found out
And cast him out.
I was angry
But for a short while.
Jan 5, 2019
Jan 5, 2019 at 9:22 AM UTC