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Good Fortune Poetry

Unlucky


Good luck is non transferable –
even by charm.

Bad luck, on the other hand,
is completely sharable –
it’s cause for alarm!

Our addiction to misery
increases our suffering
our willingness to spread sorrow
keeps our happiness buffering

We exhaust our good karma
and make few more good effects
ostensibly wasting
what little time we have left

Action and effect,
so easy to contemplate
moment by moment
evidence reveals our fate
seems silly to hesitate
we don’t have the time to wait

Running always to our suffering
with attachment our choking leash
inappropriate attention manifesting
the nonsensical stories we must cease
for karmic seeds mix with these delusions
and quickly appear intense pain
prompting us to commit the same!
with familiarity our curse,
          and self-cherishing our bane

We must break the uncontrolled cycle
with continuous purification
and a strong determination
to realize our destiny,
        this karmic mind chemistry

Otherwise we will continue to suffer
unluckily, again and again
      by our own hand
while we keep blaming others

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Poetry

Tired, but waking up

I’m tired of being blamed for the
inadequacies of others

reflected back at them
glaring

omissions come to light

you hate it, yes,
but it’s your mind’s appearance

though you cannot concede,
conceive
               such truth

let the mirror show

I am tired

and so not accountable

for you

for me,
             I take full responsibility
though I depend
completely
   upon the kindness of all beings
                 for every   little   thing

for my actions – wait
       — ha-ha, I see!

now just what they have
done to me

I, too, have reflections
   staring back
        challenging
             to acknowledge, purify

and why not rejoice
while at it

lucky   tired   me
I am my own mirror

clearly,
             I see.

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