Maps of TIBET before Occupation by CCP

Dear Son & Daughter

Dear Son & Daughter

Dear son & daughter, I hope you are both well

You make me feel proud, and still very swell

This is a poem I’ve made especially for you

Prompted by memories of times together, that flood through

Bring happiness to my mind, but also make me feel blue

Reminders of cherished moments I longed to repeat

Before they get lost and with age, prone to delete

But I know that time steals away this chance

And for you, too, will soon repeat life’s dance

Feeling deprived of times that cannot be brought

But things change and know they cannot be caught

For I know we can all be together again one day

We are all linked by life’s action in some way

Given a fair wind I know you always could & should

Be the best of life’s children, knowing that you are both very good!

© Peter Dorey 2008

Aware of the awareness?

Aware of the awareness?

Awareness made of nowness

Thoughts and emotions less

than the main mind we're told

Will we realize before we get old?

This truth will maybe then unfold

In the next bardo have we're told

A few more rare precious chances

Of life 'n death's sacred dances!

© Peter Dorey 2010

Stable Abiding

Looking for a stable ground

knowing it can't really be found

From nowness distracted dreams

anything of attracted themes

The rug will be pulled from under

but even though that's plain I blunder

Time lost in ignorance, a diversion

of Attachment and Aversion

Ordinary mind so fickle

the ego's play and tickle

So cunning, slippery and tricky

judging, condemning, very picky

Seeking a happiness from outside

can't sit contented and just abide

© Peter Dorey 2010

Days of Drama & Karma

A glorious day does unfold
The future not now to be told
God's plan, fate or Karma
It's just part of life's drama
If we knew the outcome
The prospect would be no fun
The Universe in a state of flux
Thro’ Interdependence it trucks
Very neatly into an overall plan
Will he find a woman she a man?
© Peter Dorey 2010

Snaky ego a slither

There lying on towpath

fear jumped to show

Made you little laugh

simile for our ego

Just a shoe lace

not that slithering snake

Almost heart did race 

funny what to make

In mind's hectic pace

© Peter Dorey 2011
(Photo credit to K.A.)

Is that rightly so ...?

is that rightly so
if it pleases thy ego
but for there don't go I
but helps us get by
in this shared delusion
not a just collusion
but there is this force
we follow blindly of course
it doesn't exist except
we have to accept
relative and absolute truth
being you own sleuth
our obstacle is labelling
fixation robbing meddling
as a dream controller
we let it smoulder
the watcher must go!
cast a spell on the ego!

Is that rightly so
If it pleases thy ego
For there don't go I
But helps us get by
Hurling your diatribe
Sugary but to abide
Or maybe sycophantic
Can be quite pedantic
In this shared delusion
Is it just a collusion
But there is this force
We follow blindly of course
It doesn't exist except
We have to really accept
Relative and absolute truth
Being you own sleuth
Our obstacle is labelling
Blinding and a disabling
And fixation robbing us
In this samsaric fuss
As a dream controller
We let it simmer and smoulder
The watcher must go!
Cast a spell on the ego!

© Peter Dorey 2011