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Poets Corner

Gregg Heathcote

Seeding One Taste Budding:
Logos Spermatikos Nembutsu Becoming Homo Sapid Sapiens

Dancing agape amidst this leap of naked flame
Tongue whetting succouring appetite - consuming suckling life alive
Earth's native witness borne in Tariki's nativity so provocative!
Passion succulently succumbing to that siren's ripe calling
Namo Amida Butsu

Game tenderness of Oya's devoted dalliance
That Buddha-body's betrothal of flesh feasting its hungering whole
Ingenue's intimate play piquant upon self's searing skin
Intensity's open entree blazing the Great Natural Way all-going
Time taut, rapt in sense, stretched to snap!
Namo Amida Butsu

Aspic reservoir of incendiary inhibition set alight
West well ingesting whole the blood's burning glut
Mara's dyspeptic dam in an instant bursts!
Cry of compassion consummate in naked oneness alive
And savouring innocence is in raw concupiscence conceiving
Amidst voluptuous death that virgin dancing thus born
Being's whole meal meet - Namo Amida Butsu

(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 5 June 1995)

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