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Thursday, May 31, 2012

One Difference Between a Poem and a Sutra

If you ask me
One difference
Between a good poem
And a Sutra
Consists precisely
In this

A good poem
Takes form first
In the heart of
A woman or man
Or sometimes a child
Whereas a Sutra
Originates in the mind
Of a Bodhisatva

But you didn't ask
So instead
I recorded this theory
Here on my blog





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