Lonnard Dean Watkins
ANZAC DAY
Dawn
Breaks
Silent
Old soldiers
Can never forget
When night swallowed the sparrows' song
BUDDHA DUST
Dust
Blows
Across
Bodhgaya
The Buddha smiles
Blessing each single grain of sand
REFLECTION
Look
See
My face
Reflected
In the train window
Passing through people's living rooms
ETERNAL YOUTH
Who
Hears
Bells toll
Youth's fountain
Search for eternal life
Gains momentum in our last hour
NEW JERUSALEM
Lost
Souls
Wander
Narrow streets
New Jerusalem
Hope remains in the coming dawn
SILENCE SHOUTS
Clear
Path
Followed
Silence shouts
Pleasure seekers pay
For the blind man to show the way
TEA
Gone
Lost
That time
Long ago
I met a stranger
We shared a cup of jasmine tea
COMPASS OF LIFE
North
Wind
Begins
Life's new breath
Foetus in the womb
From nothing to uncertainty
Strong easterly fills the mainsail
Dust blows in our eyes
Howling wind
To youth
From
Babe
Dusk
Brings
Twilight
Wind of change
Fading to the south
Autumn of our knowledge gained
From the westerly wind of age
There is nothing more
Three sixty
Returns
To
Naught
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