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Poets Corner
The ocean of the Universal Vow is
naught but a teardrop welling
in the eye of a stormy world
Still focus of the irradiant light
Beauty burning in a sea aflame
Heart of the beating heart's haven
What primal promise may a droplet fulfil?
What dire gauge of thirst fully quench?
Pure meniscus of deliquescent time alighting
Presently see its crystal ball catching thee
Mirror bright imaging the tense-less sense
Striking centre of a rippling mind
What depth in a raindrop falling
What wonder in Iris' rainbow womb
Spectral covenant of clarity's splendour
Sky crying over the vivid vortex
Life now flowing into exultant earth
Life then hard upon dry ground
Saha swirling darkling tempest
Straight'way spews the lightning flash
Incandescent blade of immanent space
Mighty Monju's imminent time come
Cutting open the bowels of compassion
Amida's newborn sun delivered just so
Blazing eye of the beloved beholder
Glistening oculus - glistering blistering oracle
Namo Amida Butsu - Namo Amida Butsu
Hail falling rapt in your forge
Annealing ambience erupting into life
Glowing gold at hearth the gloaming matter
Void as form as clear water mist
Bathes in beauty the blinded I
Condensation cataract of potent purity thundering
Dewdrop dispensation catching dawn's sparkling web
Transparent global gesture of light's ocean waving
Molten moment westward set - Namo Amida Butsu
(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 14 January 1995)