<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523637" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bikku under the Bodhi Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">yogi under the banyan tree<br> yogi under the bodhi tree<br>bikku under the banyan tree</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> waiting for release</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bikku in blissful nibbhana<br>yogi in extinguishing moksha</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Penniless poet under the tenement roof<br>Jazz organist under the pavement sky<br>Struggling novelist under the Riviera blue<br>Russian ballerina under the American umbrella<br>Apprentice painter under the Sistine Chapel<br>Sculptor Underground</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> waiting for the agent's call</div><div style="margin:10px 0">burning Anne Frank manuscripts in an air-raid fire<br>singular melodies drowned in the descending drone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kafka writing without a morrow<br>van Gogh dabbing his tormented palette under the Arles sun<br>Sartre turning the Nobel Prize down for teenage girls<br>Siddhartha abandoning his body's palace for the people's pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> the common man unable to abandon his workload family</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bikku under the bodhi tree<br>his body shrivelled under the saffron robe<br>his begging bowl filled by karma-earning hands<br>the last trichinosis-filled moksha meal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bikku rising on a thousand-petalled flower<br>bikku piercing through the cakras' splendrous colours</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> bikku on a burning pyre</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(©: T. Wignesan 1992 & April 29,1997, Paris, from the Sequence/Collection: 'Words for a Lost Sub-Continent' and in the collection: longhand notes (a binding of poems) ,1999.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523637" data-title="Bikku under the Bodhi Tree de T. Wignesan" data-description="yogi under the banyan tree yogi under the bodhi tree bikku under the banyan tree waiting for release bikku in blissful nibbhana yogi in extinguishing moksha Penniless poet under the tenement roof Jazz organist under the pavement sky Strugglin..."></div> </div> </div>

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