Tags
airplane trail, death, grief, loss, love, poetry, remembrance
Do me a favour,
when you die –
leave me a kiss,
up, in the sky.
© Remembrance 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Remembrance
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Category Archives: Poetry
Seven Years on…
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Deep Stuff!, Loss, Poetry, Waiting and Longing
Show your sorrow,
tears and all.
Throw down the rain,
let torrents fall.
Show your anger,
in thunderous roar,
roll round the skies,
and then send more.
Show your fury,
with electric strikes,
lightening lights,
with bolts that smite.
I grieve your death,
and so do you.
I see your storms,
the summer through.
© Seven Years on… 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Jacob’s Ladder
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Poetry
Climbing Jacob’s ladder,
reaching for the stars,
flirting with the moonbeams,
it makes us who we are.
Sliding down the rainbows,
and bouncing off the clouds,
dancing with the fireflies,
as thunder sings out loud.
Lightening Skies illuminate,
standing on high peaks,
flying with the eagles,
all within mans’ reach.
© Jacob’s Ladder 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Raggi di sole, sun beams (Photo credit: pizzodisevo (Laser therapy – terapia – Therapie))
Julie’s Poem
30 Saturday Jun 2012
With knitted Kasas,
we’re on retreat,
we’re not in the Order,
but we’ve reserved a seat!
We’re not a Chapter,
not quite yet,
we’re just a paragraph –
On your marks get set!
© Julie’s Poem 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
1st Class!!!
30 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Humour, Poetry
Tags
Buddha, Buddhism, Dharma, enlightenment, poetry, quest, Sangharakshita, Worldly Winds
I’ve bought my ticket,
I’m going 1st Class!
Setting out on this quest,
on this lives long path.
My past is a story,
an interesting read,
but I’m leaving my baggage,
of which I don’t need.
I look through the window,
recognise all I see,
the Buddha land scenery,
familiar to me.
The weather is clement,
worldly winds have calmed,
the passengers valiant,
Dharma Sister’s at alms.
I’m enjoying the journey,
no rush to get there;
with guide book in hand,
and the wind in my hair!
We stop at the station,
other travellers alight,
we’re sharing this vision,
Enlightenment in sight.
©1st Class!! 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Reflections
30 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Love, Poetry
Tags
compassion, enlightenment, harmony, mirror, poetry, pure, reflection, Stream Entry
I look in the mirror,
and what do I see?
A face staring back,
that’s simply not me.
I open my heart,
and what do I find?
A limitless space,
compassionate and kind.
I open my mouth,
and what tumbles out?
Harmonious words,
with truth and no doubt.
I search in my head,
what goes on in there?
A radiant mind,
pure, like clear mountain air.
© Reflections 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Matterhorn (4,478 m, Walliser Alps, East side) mirrored in Riffelsee, photograph taken from shore of lake Riffelsee. Français : Le mont Cervin (4 478 m, est des Alpes Valaisannes) se reflète dans le Riffelsee. Photo prise sur la berge du lac. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Just Being
30 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Longing & Waiting, Poetry
Tags
I am a block of stone,
in the process of being,
carved by Dharmic hands,
Bodhisattvas and Buddhas create,
the future potential, to be.
I am not that of marble,
Cold, flashy and fragile,
nor that of sandstone,
easy to carve, easy to crumble,
neither am I flint stone,
hard, impenetrable, unyielding.
I am just good old stone –
nothing special.
The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,
Carve my features,
Chip by grain,
they shape my,
future form.
Potential,
I can,
attain!
© Just Being 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Prince Siddhartha Gautama (Gautama Buddha) with moustache (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Retreating!!
14 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Poetry
English: Photo of statue in mist from across the lake (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Just a little message to say….
I will be away on retreat for two weeks – back on the 29th June. Sorry I have been a little less active this week – I have been preparing for the retreat – lots of reading to do!
If you feel lost without me
))grins((
Please feel free to look through some of my older stuff and let me know if there are any favourites – or any duds!
When I return I am looking at pulling a few poems together under the theme of, ‘Longing and Loss’.
It would be extremely helpful to have any feedback you feel fit to pass on to me – (I have a thick skin – I can take it!!)
See you all soon!!
Alex
Worldly Winds
… or as Naima calls me – Windy!! 🙂
Sleep
14 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Daily life, Poetry
Crescent Moon – 02-01-06 (Photo credit: wanderingnome)
Sleep is not happening
sleep will not come
my heart it is pounding
and my mind is undone.
The thoughts they are taunting
with memories flirting
the darkness is daunting
as my soul is hurting.
Sleep is not happening
sleep will not come.
© Sleep 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
I’m Sorry
14 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Daily life, Humour, Poetry
I’m sorry I used your toothbrush,
really I truly am.
I don’t know what came over me,
please don’t tell me Mam!
I really wasn’t thinking straight,
it was merely my mistake,
I saw it sat upon the sink,
it was the obvious choice to take.
A spur of the moment action,
to right some rancid breath,
a brush, a swill, to clear the air,
to prevent halitosis death.
I thought I was doing the right thing,
just to help out, you see?
To make his teeth go pearly white,
with breath all minty and clean.
I know it was quite wrong of me,
and it really wasn’t right,
but now at least the doggies teeth,
are clean and really white!
Smiling Dog (Photo credit: A. Davey)
© I’m Sorry 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Worldly Winds 
