Poems of Death and Rebirth 2025
By Wy’East Sangha members
“New Year’s Day -
everything’s in blossom!
I feel about average.””
“It was a really bad day but also a good day. I handed him over into the Wild Blue Yonder. But it wasn’t me. So this is death.”
“Who was I?
Tell me your story.
Mine is past.”
“All my life I’ve put words between us.
Now we can really get to know each other!”
“‘It was so simple, how can it be personal?’, my dog asked.”
“Kookaburras calling, laugh
Waking the neighbourhood after dawn
Welcome a New Year to history
After a pride in old acquaintance
Was celebrated and goes
Happy hearts slumber in their own time”
“Laughter together.
Night falls.
The mystery revealed.”
“A purring cat
knows the Way
content
and present”
“Waiting for daylight,
open to whatever comes,
hidnig’s not an option
breath flows easily,
each moment matters
trusting awareness.”
“I walk the soft sand.
Waves of time wash marks away,
Surf’s roar erases.”
“Tears of grief unshed.
Tears of joy.”
“Leading a life of adventure,
the closer I came to death
the more alive I feel.”