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Poets' Corner
Gregg Heathcote's poems are already well-known to members and friends of the Hongwanji Buddhist Mission of Australia and we are pleased to be able to present his poems for the first time to a wider readership.
Gregg lives in the Australian city of Newcastle with his wife Tiffany and works in the library at Newcastle University. He has been a prominent member of Hongwanji Buddhist Mission of Australia since its inception.
Gregg.Heathcote@newcastle.edu.au
Animus in Amber
Bombu-kaya
Soaking in my perspicuous blot upon the Name
Seeding One Taste Budding:
Logos Spermatikos Nembutsu Becoming Homo Sapid Sapiens
Clouded Night
A comforting thought
Sea of Suchness: Crucible of Compassion
His faith frank: Infinity gone fishing
The Game of the Name
It's a gas: a rarity ditty on pure wind blowing by
Idyll of Ingenue
Jiriki Jam; Tariki Timbre
Loose living
Melting Moment
Promissory Notation
Pyre Afloat
A recipe for not making a meal of it all
The Last Resort
Rolling off Fortunatus' pursed lips
Seasoning
Light Sketch Fantastic
Solvitur Ambulando
In shinjin's sauntering stride
Air on the attached strings
Shinjin for the Steppenwolf : a flagrant Middle Way for those in two minds
Memoirs of Vacation at Wit's End
The Golden Wind
Ham on the Bone
I's Amida's staggering stand-up straight-man: a vice-verse confession of dry self drunk on stage
T-time: a poem unfinished
Void avoiding
Gyo odori - dancing practice
Speculum
Ultra vires
War crime
Home birth
Traipsing tariki - homecoming abroad in peregrine practice
Singing grief's counsel in lament and reprise
Tariki's time spent, perchance 'in meditation'
Zazen of mine waiting upon nembutsu, and nembutsu of course just sitting it out
Recital's recompense NEW!