nembutsu.info Journal of Shin Buddhism

Poets Corner

Gregg Heathcote

Pyre Afloat

Namo Amida Butsu
A votive flame
Just burn you beauty
Render my fat heart
Tiding of waxing warmth
Waive me Oyasama
Catch me alight
Carry my embers on your crest
To the ends of the Earth
Unto this last
Everlasting ocean
Namo Amida Butsu

(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 7 April 1995)

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