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