Sharon Hawley

Your Compassion surrounds me

kind arms around Wisdom

finally free from desire and sense

Pauli Dutton

how can a Bodhisattva

embrace both compassion and wisdom?

be a woman

Maja Trochimczyk

ILLUMINATA

I want that crown.

That one. In the middle,

right above the eight-armed

Avalokiteshvara of gilded

bronze with blue paint.

I want that crown.

I want the divine light

to paint my thoughts

with the blue of wisdom,

with the gold of compassion.

I want my eyes to sparkle

with the jewel hues

of enlightenment.

I want to soar in the song

of the mountain peaks,

breathe their rarefied air.

I want that crown.