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Entries from October 2007

Burma, cries for help

October 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments

By now you have all seen the pictures that have been flowing out of Burma. Most of you have heard the stories of the Burmese military prompting a revolt. The protests were in response to a 500% hike in the price of gasoline fuels, but in actuality was just another abuse in a long line of abuses targeting the people of Burma.

Two weeks after the bloody crackdown by Burma’s junta against peaceful demonstrations led by Buddhist monks, the world’s authoritative body, the UN Security Council finally issued a statement on Burma.

The 15-nation council, which previously had been blocked…

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In the Rising and Falling

October 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I begin to search

the empty rooms of my memories.

Nothing but dust and decaying veils,

crumbling do I find.

A thought rises and dies,

a silent agony.

Rooms dimly lit, where no happiness rests.

I reach for words,

that simply fall away.

I stretch for meanings,

that elude my tender touch.

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A Poet Reborn

October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

We are each of us

a repository of the universe.

In each of us sleeps creation.

If on this page you see the clouds

that rains upon the forest

and feel the paper in the tree,

then you are a poet.

For the cloud rains down upon the earth,

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