Tag Archives: buddha

Currency

Posted on October 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The value of grief and mercy intersecting where metaphors are left behind to green and thrive and assume the tendered form of a lonely doll wide-eyed in its longing to touch the ruptured pinwheel the … Continue reading →

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Grove

Posted on October 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out in verdant woods mercy assembles to reign with unerring calm.

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Path to Mercy

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Among the hallowed assembly of serene countenances and stillness humble rabbit bows down supplicating not only for mercy but to hear the laughter of the lost children resounding endlessly in a forest of echoes and … Continue reading →

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Set

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Where the moss grows wilder, clamoring to efface or colonize, or perhaps model a seasonable fashion makeover to the stone deity lotus-locked in stunning repose, who long since ceded his material crown to the menial … Continue reading →

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Fare

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

At the elevated cemetery near the railroad tracks the silent Buddha presides unerringly over the ghosts faring passage to no known ends.

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In the Dark

Posted on November 14, 2022 by John Biscello

In the dark I tell myself stories cycling through different guises different spells and guesses to sublimate an existential itch I cannot scratch. In batches the words arrive wingless like immigrants from distant shores. I go there hungover from daily … Continue reading →

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Holy Dark

Posted on October 16, 2022 by John Biscello

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Dr. Seuss Meets Buddha

Posted on December 30, 2020 by John Biscello

Building a rocket-ship of a meditation chair, low to the ground, in my sawdust workshop of a heart chamber, so as to comfortably leave my body and astrally roam with medicinal curiosity— Oh, the places you’ll go!

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Samsara and an Order of Fries

Posted on April 1, 2019 by John Biscello

Consider the alternative: an itinerant circus where headless chickens pilot aeroplanes and kamikaze into the swollen sides of whitewashed barns and people in city traffic function as belligerent seals honking until the moon has a breakdown and refuses to come … Continue reading →

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Buddha’s Ninth Life

Posted on August 2, 2018 by John Biscello

Fasting on patience, the cat became enlightened– No reason to leap.

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