Poem # 1 untitled
just
inside
this
Thai island reef insight
the
ocean surface is a lavender pink
fluid
brain
inside
which squirming turquoise delight
and
circadian rhythm half light
willingly
accept the privately exchanged language
of
tint and intimacy
sunrise
spoon billed
to
roseate genesis
beyond
any word proverb
promised
Poem # 2 untitled
things
to do in Bangkok today
floss
greet
every query
with
lotus blossom optimism
perform
the swaying elephant dance
for
the dead
the
one
that
stops weapons manufacturers
from starving more children
Poem # 3 untitled
I
am sure you will be thrilled to hear
this
Delta Airlines Boeing 777 jet flight
the
mythical bird I wish could transform ashes
into
food that feeds all sentient beings
soars
towards Bangkok
where
it will deliver me
like
the thready ping
of
a Buddhist prayer bell
to
the 8 petaled heart
of
brightness
you’ll
also be pleased to know
I've
rediscovered
just
enough of my innocence
to
relinquish
a
hideous ego
that
bought and sold
more
and more
to
smugly train itself
to
care less and less
now
after flying to the opposite side
of
the world
to
where that wound called love
is
the place the all-seeing third eye
enters
your body
my
psyche yearns
to fuse
Thai
and American minds
and
hearts
in
the filigree astral light
of
an intimate compassion
for
all living beings
that
has never before existed
Stephen A. Rozwenc is a widely published expat poet, who currently resides in Thailand. He has published seven collections of poetry. His published book collections are: The Fourth Turning, Grass Hill, Ekphrastic Nightingales, New England Fortune Cookies, Death Is Birth, Russia, Translations of Famous Russian Poets, and Thai Diary.
More than two hundred of his poems and
translations have appeared individually in numerous poetry publications
including: The Mailer Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Blue Lake Review, Dm
Du Jour, Equinox, Eunoia Review, Glass Poetry, Naugatuck River Review, New
Pattaya Review, Philadelphia Poets, Poets Against War, Plum Tree Tavern,
Lothlorien Poetry Journal and Wordpeace. His poetry and translations have
been published internationally in Europe and Asia. He has been a past recipient
of two Williamsburg Massachusetts Arts Council Grants for poetry.
Two of his poems have been selected for inclusion in the Lothlorien Poetry Journal anthology of best poems of 2021.
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