Thursday, April 6, 2017

I Visit The Site Of Seattle's Chinese Garden Comments

Rating: 5.0

In Seattle there is a bluff overlooking Puget Sound.
An old man digging in his yard told me it was called Pigeon Hill.
I tried to imagine how it got that name.
Maybe passenger pigeons once flocked in multitudes,
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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 18 April 2017

I'll sit there thinking of phrases from the sutras. I will wait there for someone, it won't matter if she comes or not, And if she does, she'll come tripping past the edge, like a new song. I'll read Associations on a Lotus by Yu Guangzhong, Looking up I'll gaze on the iron lotuses of Seattle's skyline. You narration in the poem of a Chinese garden in Seattle is remarkable. You have used the Sanskrit word 'Sutra' and effectively utilised with the lotuses in a natural pond and compared it with the iron lotuses in a city. Nice poem Denis! Enjoyed reading it.. A full vote of 10 for you!

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