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"tibet" poems
"Dear Rolf Harrer, I am a person you don't know. A man you've never met...But you are someone who occupies my mind...and my heart...in this distant land where I've gone. If you can imagine a hidden place, tucked safely away from the world...concealed by walls of high, snow-capped mountains...a place rich with all the strange beauty of your night-time dreams...Then you know where I am." "In the country where I'm travelling - Tibet - people believe if they walk long distances to holy places...it purifies the bad deeds they've committed...They believe the more difficult the journey, the greater the depth of purification." "...In this place where time stands still, it seems that everything is moving..including me. I can't say I know where I'm going. Nor whether my bad deeds can be purified...there are so many things I've done which I regret. But when I come to a full stop, I hope you will understand that the distance between us is not as great as it seems... With deep affection, your father... Heinrich Harrer."
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM UTC
Untitled 185
#*Multitudes will be liberated by that recognition; and although multitudes obtain liberation in that manner, the number of sentient beings being great, evil karma powerful, obscurations dense, propensities o too long standing, the Wheel of Ignorance and Illusion becometh neither exhausted nor accelerated*.            The Tibetan Book of the Dead           translation:  Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup Free Tibet your sticker tells me… Yes, I think, perhaps I should – and the noble thought compels me, uninformed, half-understood. Will their freedom help my Karma? Upgrade my reincarnation? (Soul who could not dare to harm a fly… much less a Buddhist nation.) Not to justify aggression by the ever-brutal Commies, let us grant no glib concession to the Maoists – or their mommies. Slogans echo in the void, shining in bardos of the dead; stopped by the light, I am annoyed impatient for the change from red. A bumper crop of human woe beams forth a mandate to my brain while red Dakinis circle slow in Buddhist hells of karmic pain. The eastern concepts here diverge and bow before brutality. They make this driver long to merge with incorporeality. Then I glimpse a monkish fellow swathed in saffron, calmly seated. His, the cloud-borne sage’s pillow; mine the traffic; stalled, defeated. In his gaze of stern displeasure I perceive the orient stars calculating man’s mismeasure trapped, exhausted, among the cars. Flanked by Spirits wreathed in fire he extends an accusing hand: Western slave of base desire: come and  liberate my land !” I meditate before the stop light: am I ready for the task ? Should I just refuse it outright Can’t it be someone else ?  I ask… Must I free this mountain nation from the Buddha, demons and Reds? Shall your sticker’s declaration shatter the yoke and raise their heads ? Somebody ought to free Tibet, and heed this Himalayan cry. Maybe we should get upset… The red light changes. Cars pass by, predestined for benign events and unconcerned for persecution; oblivious to dissidents awaiting execution.
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 9:14 PM UTC
Exhausted Karma
#*Multitudes will be liberated by that recognition; and although multitudes obtain liberation in that manner, the number of sentient beings being great, evil karma powerful, obscurations dense, propensities o too long standing, the Wheel of Ignorance and Illusion becometh neither exhausted nor accelerated*.            The Tibetan Book of the Dead           translation:  Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup Free Tibet your sticker tells me… Yes, I think, perhaps I should – and the noble thought compels me, uninformed, half-understood. Will their freedom help my Karma? Upgrade my reincarnation? (Soul who could not dare to harm a fly… much less a Buddhist nation.) Not to justify aggression by the ever-brutal Commies, let us grant no glib concession to the Maoists – or their mommies. Slogans echo in the void, shining in bardos of the dead; stopped by the light, I am annoyed impatient for the change from red. A bumper crop of human woe beams forth a mandate to my brain while red Dakinis circle slow in Buddhist hells of karmic pain. The eastern concepts here diverge and bow before brutality. They make this driver long to merge with incorporeality. Then I glimpse a monkish fellow swathed in saffron, calmly seated. His, the cloud-borne sage’s pillow; mine the traffic; stalled, defeated. In his gaze of stern displeasure I perceive the orient stars calculating man’s mismeasure trapped, exhausted, among the cars. Flanked by Spirits wreathed in fire he extends an accusing hand: Western slave of base desire: come and  liberate my land !” I meditate before the stop light: am I ready for the task ? Should I just refuse it outright Can’t it be someone else ?  I ask… Must I free this mountain nation from the Buddha, demons and Reds? Shall your sticker’s declaration shatter the yoke and raise their heads ? Somebody ought to free Tibet, and heed this Himalayan cry. Maybe we should get upset… The red light changes. Cars pass by, predestined for benign events and unconcerned for persecution; oblivious to dissidents awaiting execution.
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Somewhere in your wardrobe, I'd be willing to bet There's a t-shirt probably bearing the silhouette of Che Guevara He was revolutionary, yeah, he wore a cool hat But behind the design I think you might find it's not quite as simple as that Che was a bit of a homophobe, Che was a bit of a homophobe, I think... apparently.. who knows? Che was a bit of a homophobe, Che was a bit of a homophobe This is my song in defence of the fence A little sing along, a anthem to ambivalence The more you know, the harder you will find it To make up your mind, it, doesn't really matter if you find You can't see which grass is greener Chances are it's neither, and either way it's easier To see the difference, when you're sitting on the fence Somewhere in your house, I'd be willing to bet There's a picture of that grinning hippy from Tibet - the Dalai Llama He's a lovely, funny fella, he gives soundbites galore But let's not forget that back in Tibet, those funky monks used to **** the poor, yeah And the Buddhist line about future lives is the perfect way to stop the powerless rising up And he tells the poor they will live again, but he's rich now so it's easy for him to say I'm taking the stand in defense of the fence I got a little band playing anthems to ambivalence We divide the world into terrorists and heroes Into normal folk and weirdos Into good people and pedo's Into things that give you cancer and the things that cure cancer And the things that don't cause cancer, but there's a chance they will cause cancer in the future We divide the world to stop us feeling frightened Into wrong and into right and Into black and into white and Into real men and fairies Into status quo and scary Yeah we want the world binary, binary But it's not that simple. And your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive Yea your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive And your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive And so does your baby, maybe you oughta trade HIM in for a Prius- ROCK! I'm taking the stand in defence of the fence I got a little band playing tributes to ambivalence We divide the world into liberals and gun-freaks Into atheists and fundies Into tee-tot'lers and junkies Into chemical and natural Into fictional and factual Into science and supernatural But it's actually naturally not that white and black You'll be Dividing us into terrorists and heroes Into normal folk and weirdos Into good people and pedos Into things that give you cancer and the things that cure cancer And things that don't cause cancer, but there's a chance they will cause cancer in the future We divide the world to stop us feeling frightened Into wrong and into right and Into black and into white and Into real men and fairies Into parrots and canaries Yeah we want the world binary, binary - 011101! The more you know, the harder you will find it To make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find You can't see which grass is greener Chances are it's neither, and either way it's easier To see the difference Cause it's not that simple...
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Apr 4, 2013
Apr 4, 2013 at 7:06 PM UTC
The Fence by Tim Minchin
Somewhere in your wardrobe, I'd be willing to bet There's a t-shirt probably bearing the silhouette of Che Guevara He was revolutionary, yeah, he wore a cool hat But behind the design I think you might find it's not quite as simple as that Che was a bit of a homophobe, Che was a bit of a homophobe, I think... apparently.. who knows? Che was a bit of a homophobe, Che was a bit of a homophobe This is my song in defence of the fence A little sing along, a anthem to ambivalence The more you know, the harder you will find it To make up your mind, it, doesn't really matter if you find You can't see which grass is greener Chances are it's neither, and either way it's easier To see the difference, when you're sitting on the fence Somewhere in your house, I'd be willing to bet There's a picture of that grinning hippy from Tibet - the Dalai Llama He's a lovely, funny fella, he gives soundbites galore But let's not forget that back in Tibet, those funky monks used to **** the poor, yeah And the Buddhist line about future lives is the perfect way to stop the powerless rising up And he tells the poor they will live again, but he's rich now so it's easy for him to say I'm taking the stand in defense of the fence I got a little band playing anthems to ambivalence We divide the world into terrorists and heroes Into normal folk and weirdos Into good people and pedo's Into things that give you cancer and the things that cure cancer And the things that don't cause cancer, but there's a chance they will cause cancer in the future We divide the world to stop us feeling frightened Into wrong and into right and Into black and into white and Into real men and fairies Into status quo and scary Yeah we want the world binary, binary But it's not that simple. And your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive Yea your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive And your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive And so does your baby, maybe you oughta trade HIM in for a Prius- ROCK! I'm taking the stand in defence of the fence I got a little band playing tributes to ambivalence We divide the world into liberals and gun-freaks Into atheists and fundies Into tee-tot'lers and junkies Into chemical and natural Into fictional and factual Into science and supernatural But it's actually naturally not that white and black You'll be Dividing us into terrorists and heroes Into normal folk and weirdos Into good people and pedos Into things that give you cancer and the things that cure cancer And things that don't cause cancer, but there's a chance they will cause cancer in the future We divide the world to stop us feeling frightened Into wrong and into right and Into black and into white and Into real men and fairies Into parrots and canaries Yeah we want the world binary, binary - 011101! The more you know, the harder you will find it To make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find You can't see which grass is greener Chances are it's neither, and either way it's easier To see the difference Cause it's not that simple...
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dear western society, no one cares for the peasant who provides the pheasant for the royal table - but when the pheasant isn't there - the royal orchestra cries out: where's the pheasant! where's the pheasant! as if both pheasant and peasant were alike... indeed, the peasant isn't there to provide the pheasant for the feast- and with such vitriol you proudly say: once these roaming stars that go against all reason in cosmology disappear, you'll know that i was here - you'll know - perhaps the pyramids were only overshadowed by the Eiffel tower, but many more pyramids were mentally tattooed into the minds of men - and rose far greater and were more harder to overcome that man took to climbing Everest - stone by stone his legs encountered a new form of laying brick-on-brick - for if western society deems me mad to purge the old hopes of colonial rule - then i have already chastised my body to have no heart, and let it be carried on course toward Iran or Afghanistan - and there entombed - i hope Western society loves its humour as much as it loves it's panic and paranoia and picnics of waiting for the far right to wake up - and this liberal-leftist mush of kind words to be shoved into Disneyland of other fantasia. yours sincerely,                              Vermin.
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Jul 27, 2016
Jul 27, 2016 at 10:12 PM UTC
The eight pyramids of Tibet
Saint Jude says what's up been in Boston all night having coffee and tea, I bet you're doing the same in Tibet or wherever They tried everything on you: the secret arrests burned Rumi books poisoned coconut water giraffes with broken faces Loneliness is the door to the traps but you know who you are I know too when I see you on the coast as still, as skinny as one of my African statues as lithe as a palm frond or a jellyfish You were always going to get free you were always going to get free
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 9:27 PM UTC
Camelheart
I ache for my first kiss Just a taste from her lips An embrace from her warmth Like the light in her heart Kiss me in the light Where the sun shines To where we first met In the middle of Tibet So listen to what I say I love you and I would stay No matter where we at I love you till my death Beyond the stars and back
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 4:03 PM UTC
Darkest Desire
I sat upon the soft detailed carpet we rose into the air out of the window seeing the world New York, Rome, Greece, Paris, London, Tibet, Beijing, Budapest, Oslo, Munich, India, African plains, Jerusalem, West Bank, etc What was the best is the people and the culture how different each one is but yet wanting the same thing riding the magic carpet made me think about how everyone in the world could work together to make peace but there is still those internal disagreements peace between enemies hurts further In real life I was my imagination and the carpet was my dream the future is my hope
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Apr 23, 2010
Apr 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM UTC
Magic Carpet ride
If I was a king of Asia I would give you all the gold there is But I'm not even prince of Persia, all I have is love and dreams Let me show you land of legends, land of honeymoon and rising sun I am not as rich as Ali Baba, but I promise we'll be having fun I'll take you to Bali the gem of Java Sea Then we'll go on to safari a little south of Abu Dhabi I'll take you to Maldives to swim in coral reefs We'll enjoy the sweet papaya on the islands of Pattaya I'll show you lake Baikal, Tibet and Taj Mahal We'll see Macao, Yokohama, Hanoi, Jeddah, Jaipur, Jakarta I'll take you to Dubai, Dushanbe and Mumbai We'll spend some starry nights in yurts near the city of Yakutsk I’ll take you to Tashkent where melons got their scent We will taste all sorts of apples in the city of Almaty I’ll take you to Beirut we'll go nuts on dried fruits And the coffee with vanilla we can try it in Manilla I'll take you to Kashgar to shop at old bazaar Then we'll fly a magic carpet to the markets of Qatar We'll see ruins of Karakorum the old capital of Moguls Then we'll go to Kathmandu and then Karachi and Kabul We'll discover caves with treasures, make three wishes all at once All at once will turn to a fairy tale, like in one and thousand nights Let me show you feast of colors, take you cross the dunes in caravans Even if I don't look like Alladin, I sure know a thing about romance I'll take you to Taipei to see its lovely bay We will sip on Coca Cola on the silky sands of Goa I'll take you to Shanghai where towers touch the sky And the best of architecture we will see in precious Petra We'll go to Ashgabat, Bishkek, Busan, Baghdad We will see Great Wall of China and Cambodian Angkor Wat We'll see the Everest, mount Fuji, Gobi Desert And it's certainly my pleasure to take you all around Asia!
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Apr 3, 2022
Apr 3, 2022 at 10:07 PM UTC
Song of Asia
If I was a king of Asia I would give you all the gold there is But I'm not even prince of Persia, all I have is love and dreams Let me show you land of legends, land of honeymoon and rising sun I am not as rich as Ali Baba, but I promise we'll be having fun I'll take you to Bali the gem of Java Sea Then we'll go on to safari a little south of Abu Dhabi I'll take you to Maldives to swim in coral reefs We'll enjoy the sweet papaya on the islands of Pattaya I'll show you lake Baikal, Tibet and Taj Mahal We'll see Macao, Yokohama, Hanoi, Jeddah, Jaipur, Jakarta I'll take you to Dubai, Dushanbe and Mumbai We'll spend some starry nights in yurts near the city of Yakutsk I’ll take you to Tashkent where melons got their scent We will taste all sorts of apples in the city of Almaty I’ll take you to Beirut we'll go nuts on dried fruits And the coffee with vanilla we can try it in Manilla I'll take you to Kashgar to shop at old bazaar Then we'll fly a magic carpet to the markets of Qatar We'll see ruins of Karakorum the old capital of Moguls Then we'll go to Kathmandu and then Karachi and Kabul We'll discover caves with treasures, make three wishes all at once All at once will turn to a fairy tale, like in one and thousand nights Let me show you feast of colors, take you cross the dunes in caravans Even if I don't look like Alladin, I sure know a thing about romance I'll take you to Taipei to see its lovely bay We will sip on Coca Cola on the silky sands of Goa I'll take you to Shanghai where towers touch the sky And the best of architecture we will see in precious Petra We'll go to Ashgabat, Bishkek, Busan, Baghdad We will see Great Wall of China and Cambodian Angkor Wat We'll see the Everest, mount Fuji, Gobi Desert And it's certainly my pleasure to take you all around Asia!
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I sit holding my aching head in calloused hands experiencing ‘forlorn’ a worn soul aged beyond the calendar dreary eyes look upon the state of humanity irradiated babies trading rabies with deviants live on pay per view seeing the shape of famous faces manipulated flesh blankly posed only desperate oculars show the truth darting frantically form mirror to mirror attempting to validate existence through reflection but not like the monks in Tibet regret fills bent cheekbones spackled with Botox and raspberry jam thinning peak aligns with the occasional grey strand and I sit wishing only to see people love themselves
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 2:53 PM UTC
ode to plastic
Lining up batteries of anti-aircraft anti-everything all anti- something this and that distribution centre for psychological pressure backed by radio, TV presidents staring straight newspapers, journals and dialogues around flash round tables on the whys how’s and who’s sneaky microphone hidden in flower pots, long distance listening devices. Telephones tapped wives tapped, senior diplomats and doormats tapped wives tapped on shoulders whispered to: watch out for Joe blogs he has a roving eye. see me tonight, after dinner. The russians have warship A into Zone B the chinese have shifted anti-missile up the mountains near tibet, near nepal near taiwan, near  the hormuz straits into africa, zimbabwe, fiji, and northern china who cares. Tomorrow they will shift out again. the pressure is building in the ukraine, turkey is on fire The north koreans have no power as seen from satelllites The president has run of tomato sauce so he has asked for a shipload from us of a ship it with some spies dressed as tomatoes god its killing me these acupuncture points three more needles please! Author Notes Relentless. ( an wacky I s'pose). Think about it all. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 4:20 PM UTC
Power Posture
"BUG" I saw a Bug Battle, in the cracks of the street Blood and Struggle Their plastic screams and cellophane curses were almost like yours and mine. Until a brave one crawled to my ear, and he told me of his trial in the street crack theater, I grinned as if I cared, he smiled like he had the time He said "in whose camp does your banner fly, and can I have you on my side?" He loaded a Pistol while I replied: I said: I'm anti-pro no shout catechist, so keep your pamphlets political activist, You take your cause for lack of a purpose in life, pursuit of happiness, "eudemonia"  good spiritedness you're living proof that ignorance aint bliss Pray "Libira nos a malo!" and Free Tibet! But you never prayed for the souls with affixed Bayonets; so I wave like the man being shot from the cannon; born on this chunk of warm rock hurling through nothing; who only on the front of spirit can fight; Storm the Bastille of desperate life; and dance in the street every night till the day I die. The Bug Replied: Know All, Know all, in the dialog to win, two grants are a Franklyn one Lincoln's just a fin? Posit value for this bug since you're so well balanced, gaining perspective from the outermost valence; you never killed what you eat and confuse "labor with action,"   but you think you're to evolved to fight for my faction; We're currency baby as we live and breed, BASTILLE for you ATTICA for me! better get in the frae my anti anti teacher before it ***** you along with every other fighting creature; I'm going back to me cell where I breathe a little freer; but let me give a final though like I'm Jerry Springer: If happiness is purpose than you can call my purpose love, to survive I fight the Battle and to me you're the bug. Thunderstruck, I sat on the curb, realizing I could be a "social surd;" then I saw my small confessor get killed in a raid; I would have stomped out his assassin if I wasn't so afraid; instead I rose to my feet, and walked straight home, locked myself in, and wrote out this song, I think of the bug while I'm dancing in the street, every time my neighbor throughs a sneaker at me; I feel his wrestles spirit longing to fight, while I'm drinking and singing in the middle of the night, than it hits me: The bug was right
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 9:04 PM UTC
"BUG" Recorded as "Bug Dialogue" 2009 (BMI)
"BUG" I saw a Bug Battle, in the cracks of the street Blood and Struggle Their plastic screams and cellophane curses were almost like yours and mine. Until a brave one crawled to my ear, and he told me of his trial in the street crack theater, I grinned as if I cared, he smiled like he had the time He said "in whose camp does your banner fly, and can I have you on my side?" He loaded a Pistol while I replied: I said: I'm anti-pro no shout catechist, so keep your pamphlets political activist, You take your cause for lack of a purpose in life, pursuit of happiness, "eudemonia"  good spiritedness you're living proof that ignorance aint bliss Pray "Libira nos a malo!" and Free Tibet! But you never prayed for the souls with affixed Bayonets; so I wave like the man being shot from the cannon; born on this chunk of warm rock hurling through nothing; who only on the front of spirit can fight; Storm the Bastille of desperate life; and dance in the street every night till the day I die. The Bug Replied: Know All, Know all, in the dialog to win, two grants are a Franklyn one Lincoln's just a fin? Posit value for this bug since you're so well balanced, gaining perspective from the outermost valence; you never killed what you eat and confuse "labor with action,"   but you think you're to evolved to fight for my faction; We're currency baby as we live and breed, BASTILLE for you ATTICA for me! better get in the frae my anti anti teacher before it ***** you along with every other fighting creature; I'm going back to me cell where I breathe a little freer; but let me give a final though like I'm Jerry Springer: If happiness is purpose than you can call my purpose love, to survive I fight the Battle and to me you're the bug. Thunderstruck, I sat on the curb, realizing I could be a "social surd;" then I saw my small confessor get killed in a raid; I would have stomped out his assassin if I wasn't so afraid; instead I rose to my feet, and walked straight home, locked myself in, and wrote out this song, I think of the bug while I'm dancing in the street, every time my neighbor throughs a sneaker at me; I feel his wrestles spirit longing to fight, while I'm drinking and singing in the middle of the night, than it hits me: The bug was right
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In any convergence of creative-minded people there exists a massive potential for positive change. Internet platforms included. Let's make use of this energy and bring awareness to the things we feel strongly about! I'm asking yall to write poems about change! Social, Ecological, Cultural CHANGE! Let's address specific issues! Let's stop fracking, and plastic, and war, and hunger, and child labor, and let's free Tibet! Let's bring attention to pollution and corporate crime! Let's heal our wounds and bring our ills to the light! I know we can~ I created a collection called poets for change please post here: ~~~~~~ http://hellopoetry.com/collection/2821/poets-for-change/ ~~~~~~ Our voices united are powerful and beautiful tell your friends! spread the word! REPOST THIS SHIZZ! Let's show the World~
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 1:42 PM UTC
Poets for Change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the news: a strange to do with all strange. some other kiwi in the hissing bliss of a fine day. the spoils of bounty are ludicrous in disarray. a jumble of lumpkin, festooned in prayer-wheels and Tibet. a fountain of open hands. on the brink... on the terrace of counterfeit pantomimes a man of days darning socks and ultraviolet, with quasars for aspic. a drunk pirouette - bereft. love is the one jungle you know when you're lost, and the last thing that made sense. All day. the spoils of bounty are numinous, always. a trundle of frump-kin, immune to what feels like a guess. " i refuse to sell my daddy's ranch! " if you blink... i might tell you where you lost your mind. an ace of spades a Goldilocks and ultra violence, with ****** for aspirin. a defunct smidgen of less.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 1:18 PM UTC
The Spoils Of Bounty
Keep your fists in the air, Like the line from my favorite Beastie Boys song, “You’ve gotta fight for your right” Making sacrificial lambs of your youth I wish the Dalai Lama would commend you Young warriors Keeping your heritage wrapped around the soles of your feet as you march in protest Crying out for help, I feel the torment of hypocrisy I am disgusted, How can we be so blind? How can we put our want for economic stability over the extermination of an entire culture? The Middle Way is no way to go The 21st century equivalent to the Trail of Tears The silent “members” of the Chinese society Fight tooth and nail for the right to speak your language It is beautiful.
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 4:37 PM UTC
To the People of Tibet.
It was called the rooftop of the world And I stood closer to the heavens than I ever had before. The permafrost chill bit at my fingers And the silence, Oh the silence. But I felt at home in the sense That I had everything I needed. I was closer to those things Which I had previously thought Impossible to reach. I felt the presence of my mother, And the memory of my father. This place where peace is found Gave me a new sense of life In all of its meanings. I couldn’t tell you what we’re here for But I know that it starts and ends Somewhere in Tibet.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM UTC
Rooftop
The sands of El Dorado Lash my tongue under tarp; Wishes born something golden, Fried eggs under beds And homes, abodes in progress, One peso at a time – A tale and tear with every grain, An allowance and granted only Broken window. The ragged lump of pillow Where I now taste time, Reeks of mescal with my One white elbow Tapping one bronze elbow; Distant, under woven wanderings And tattered dreams of parents Wishing well – come subtle guilt, Whilst the roofs of a prior Tibet Tap atop my tether. And while I ponder what strums – Atriums, tempest and tubular, I also reckon in what it means to be Held and held alike So that I can protect And protect alike; She’s waiting for me in “before” And in Mexico, in the “now,” So much sooner the past. So to sooner, broken the future. And so mothers will cry in kitchens, Others laugh come the next fool And yet others, abandon others So that soon, recklessly soon, my feet Make a wonderful twist toward away; But at least I’d had this sunset – Something to ride off into like the Liquid dreams off a furrowed brow And at least we’d had “we” on more time. Just one more time.
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Jul 13, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 at 11:46 PM UTC
La Curandera
Never Say its over, Never say its done, You don't want to be the one, That has to go the parents and tell Them that it was their children who were hit and fell. Never Forget, The past is never just behind us History is never just history, thus Why do we have tragedies That saying is a Flacie Rwanda. Congo, Tibet, all cracks, Proof, that we must always look back. Never Say it just happened then. Even now in a world that contains, Many marvelous wonders it remains, In places like Syria, and Darfur. There are always people slaughtering the poor It persists even today, We must never stray, In memory to those who fell in the millions To those who **** innocent civilians. Never Say, its over. Never say we’ve won There is never a time it is actually done. Perhaps there will be a day. When love will emerge from the frey.
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Jan 1, 2013
Jan 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM UTC
Never Say.
The world is this, the world is that The world is a lie, the world is truth All I know is I'm leaving it soon And I am loved, so I'll try to love everybody else And hope that they'll love me too Everyone knows, that the birds fly away when it's cold And they come back when they're good and ready And we are the same, we play the same game Just by a different name and we Wont stop, til we're good and ready And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you Self righteous son of a ***** Cast your judgment on everyone else And say it's the word of God But if God loves you, why do you hate us so much? I'm beginning to think you're just a fraud You turned your god into a trophy around your neck And words in some book But there will come a day when the pain is too much for you to handle And no sense of pride will be able to save you And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you And everyday is the same thing Just another victim of some sort of tragedy And I guess that is all that's coming my way I could easily end it today I remember when I was young and grateful for The few people I knew But now I got my cellphone, Myspace and Facebook And I got crazy trying to keep up with all the people I know You've got your bumper sticker on the back of your car Telling me to free Tibet and save mother earth But I suggest you get off your lazy *** and do some actual work We are destroying just to build bigger cities And towers to scrape the sky We are dead consumers living in our dead societies And our bodies pile up so high And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you https://spencercarlson.bandcamp.com/track/im-pretty-sure-this-world-has-cancer
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC
Im Pretty Sure This World Has Cancer
The world is this, the world is that The world is a lie, the world is truth All I know is I'm leaving it soon And I am loved, so I'll try to love everybody else And hope that they'll love me too Everyone knows, that the birds fly away when it's cold And they come back when they're good and ready And we are the same, we play the same game Just by a different name and we Wont stop, til we're good and ready And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you Self righteous son of a ***** Cast your judgment on everyone else And say it's the word of God But if God loves you, why do you hate us so much? I'm beginning to think you're just a fraud You turned your god into a trophy around your neck And words in some book But there will come a day when the pain is too much for you to handle And no sense of pride will be able to save you And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you And everyday is the same thing Just another victim of some sort of tragedy And I guess that is all that's coming my way I could easily end it today I remember when I was young and grateful for The few people I knew But now I got my cellphone, Myspace and Facebook And I got crazy trying to keep up with all the people I know You've got your bumper sticker on the back of your car Telling me to free Tibet and save mother earth But I suggest you get off your lazy *** and do some actual work We are destroying just to build bigger cities And towers to scrape the sky We are dead consumers living in our dead societies And our bodies pile up so high And I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's true I'm pretty sure that the world has cancer I'm pretty sure it's me and you https://spencercarlson.bandcamp.com/track/im-pretty-sure-this-world-has-cancer
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After the first sleep comes the second morning, the realm of meditative calm, gifts we forgot we left ourselves, in the time that time forgot, in the lands we left behind. In Tibet, the most skilled monks cover great distances using the mantra of the Lung Gom, a rhythmic matrix leap.  i use a car or my memory to achieve the same. As a child i captured fireflies from my grandmother's back yard, holding them captive in a jar until they proved themselves, making me their Gom Jabbar. Now later along i feel the vibration of life in my car as i drive. i have no wish to synchronize with it.  My rebellious days are mostly over, or few in number. My subconsciousness has accepted my inevitable death.  That is alignment enough, nature's Gom Jabbar to my neck, regardless of what i prove before: like the fireflies in the jar... like the death rattle of my car... like the memories i sought, struggling against union, fearing the Gom Jabbar, mouthing the Lung Gom.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 10:12 PM UTC
Mouthing the Lung Gom
Bleached, flimsy plaster makes four corners Dotted with a certificate and paintings: Pictures from Nepal, Tibet, and Thailand They pepper the muted eggshell surfaces: Dots of color amongst a blank canvas I hear storms, shrieks, and screaming throughout them A hurricane can come whirling into these Lifeless boundaries and give protection But this empty plaster is nothing but An aimless echo chamber from inside
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Sep 16, 2018
Sep 16, 2018 at 3:03 PM UTC
Plaster Walls
If you were a place you’d be a temple in Tibet. You’d be cold as ice, and hard to reach. You’d be fraught with danger and legend. I could get lost for days with no attention or assistance. Yes. You would be a secret temple in the mountains of Tibet. I would find you looking for an answer, a cure a purpose. Looking for completion and peace. I would leave whole and calm and perfect.
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 9:36 PM UTC
Temple.
reconnected images toes in rich soil toiling under the yoke spatially fleeting fancy of freedom fades pages turn returning me to the ground I roamed as a child – forgotten foothills beacon as property brokering binds me to the earth monetarily owning my homeland by the acreage – white privilege escapist seeking grid-less domain sustainability with a suntan in the cool Oregon rain draining the infrastructure through government backed loans forever indebted as the backs of my fellow countrymen are buying my dream in America – wrecked inspectors trek Tibet for the almighty dolla dolla bill ya’ll signing off on trash commission driven misgivings serving up dry rot and mold spots on a flooded lot I shield myself against the tide of ******** seeking information in the age namesake heartbroken realtors dot the horizon holding contractual obligation waving it frantically begging – seeking perfection sneaking suspect-tion any direction needing contraception fleeting misconception leading to direct loans hearing the same groans as she is reading the next home listing…….. throwing fists into the air I swear if I didn’t care so much to handle the deed I would rent for life –
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC
while owning a home seems nice, buying it *****
the explorer of mountains dazed mindless at the first glimpse of primal space. viceral worlds, diamond marshes orbiting decaying stars. the earth is nothing from here, crags of tibet even less still. could it be that I never truly saw what lay beyond the horizon? now.
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
love poems are trite but I have no regrets
My playlist on Youtube writes itself into a poem It elicits Love, Lust, Loss anger along with a few other emotions Ratatat takes me on a tour of Rome PHOX shows me how to dance in Slow Motion John Denver joins me on the tour of Country Roads Highlight Tribe encourages me to Free Tibet Bioshock Infinite do I dream of with Schyman Elizabeth Kavinsky with his beats, urging me to Outrun Lose Sight now and again with Andrew Bayer and Ane Burn Abandoned Pools take me down the memory lane in Clone High Foo Fighters whisper in my ear that I too can Learn To Fly COCAINEJESUS, Akira, beats and samples; I have PINEAPPLEKISSES Cloud Nothing reminds me that I should Stay Useless Discover A Little Opus as I take a ride on Little Comets Sky Rabbit opine and observe the present In Our Times Joey Badass shares with me his funky ideals of *World ********** Coheed and Cambria describe brotherhood in Key Entity Extraction Geroge Ezra sings an ode to fathers in Listen to the Man Perfect shows me the other side of the coin with Simple Plan The Peppers tell a story of starting over covered in Snow Shakey Graves says takes a chance and Roll the Bones John Wayne Gacy Jr. the serial killer is immortalised by Sufjan Stevens Imagine Dragons, the subconscious and fears come alive in Demons Owl City tells a fantastic fable about insomnia in Fireflies Ellie Goulding finds sweet slumber even in dark times in Lights
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 8:24 AM UTC
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