Living Buddhas Need Passports
To incarnate legally
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No reincarnates can be found
In Beijing’s athiest compound..
In this city where dead is dead..
A reincarnate could lose his head!
No passports may be issued now
To souls returning once again..
The Dalia Lama must disavow
That he remembers more than men..
The frightened leaders in Beijing
To guarantee their full control
Are sifting through the afterbirth
To weed out any twice born soul..
Millions of Buddhists look askance
When oxymorons start to dance..
Once Herod dared to stake out polls
But Jesus too escaped the rolls..
What fun, the Dalai Lama laughs..
These Chinese leaders try to kill
What does not die, what is reborn..
Tibet still lives though it was shorn..
All tyrants try to kill the past
Erase the goodness that was done..
Defile compassion as a mask
To rule with fear and loaded guns..
Now even Heaven is under rule
By Beijing’s tyrants all reborn..
They sharpened all their buried tools
And donned their attitudes of scorn..
O mothers can you guarantee
The babe you carry is quite new?
And got its passport in your womb
(That will expire when life is through).
And so forth..
©Artemesia ..8/9/2007
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*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*This is why they call it The FRAY...
Artemesia wrote a fine poem called Living Buddhas Need Passports To incarnate legally
In her Top Post titled: Beijing: Buddhas Need Passports To Reincarnate, saying she was inspired after reading an article, HERE.
I had read this very same article some days before because a friend of mine emailed it to me knowing I would find it interesting, appalling, and hysterically funny all at the same time.
Anyway, Artemesia wrote this very fine poem. I would love to post here but will wait for her to show up and give me permission to do so (please say yes)… (permission granted)
In the meantime I will provide links because this thread became quite long, somewhat intriguing, and to say the least, very frustrating thanks to MaryAnn. (For what it’s worth) I don’t know where mOOnbirdshadow lives, but (she?) claims to be Chinese.
Enjoy the show!
But most of all enjoy the poem! . . . reading the article will help you get the poem.
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