Croaking frogs

In darkness
croaking frogs outdo
alarm clock

PJ, 27 June 2009

Bare trees

How little we know
of each other, too
Autumn, now the trees are bare.

Vela
Trento
13 January 2009

Survival

The Grebe nests among reeds
- I have clung to the thinnest of them
survival, not of the fittest

Vela
Trento
13 January 2009

Scale

Scattering light, my mind, sheds a scale
- a butterfly's wings
is the rainbow, then, only a chameleon?

Vela
Trento
7 January 2009

Silent sounds

Watching a cascade of silent sounds,
on a thatched roof,
a blackbird, its fluting song suspended

Vela
Trento
6 January 2009

Black swan

An Autumn foliage at winter's dawn
- a black swan gazing
at a ray of darkness on the river

Vela
Trento
5 January 2009

Snowdrops

Lighting a fire with a moonbeam
- in my mind,
a grasshopper rides on snowdrops

Vela
Trento
4 January 2009

Dolomites

Mighty Dolomites
How gently the snow
Nestles on her stern face


* A poem inspired by Vela's verses

Cassey Lee
Petaling Jaya
4 January 2009

Thorns

Mind storms bared
- thorns
at journey's end


K.Vela Velupillai
Trento
3 January 2009

Temple in ruins, broken Buddhas

Dreaming of temples in ruins
I became vain
from imagined past lives
Dreaming of broken Buddhas
I am humbled
into Dharma practice
from scratch


Cassey Lee
Petaling Jaya
4 January 2009

Snow flakes

Snow flakes in the waterfall
winter buds
- Cranes whitening whispering winds


K.Vela Velupillai
Trento
2 January 2009

Silence

Snow-capped peaks
a clouded mind
shrouded in silence


K.Vela Velupillai
Trento
2 January 2009

New Year

Red clouds on
first night of the year
troubles me


Cassey Lee
Petaling Jaya
1 January 2009