Once
Buddha smiled
looking at
a Rose flower,
then Zen born:
the soul of peace!
Through cable
Mrs. Indira Gandhi
got a short message:
'The Buddha is smiling! '
Still I can see
that nuclear smile of
dark pride
on her face!
Now Buddha smiles
again and again!
Dear Buddha,
the intense moonlight
on Buddha-poornima -
is it a mushroom cloud
envelope your
darkened soul?
(So disheartened,
I know:
never will the resonance of
your silent screams
from those craters
fall in their ears!)
Pity!
The wrath of power
even behind
a poet's* veil!
14.05.98
AB Vajpayee, former prime minister of India, a poet himself!
A good poem indeed. I too have written on the great Buddha & also poems on Zen! You may like my-' At the Rumtek Monastery'. -Raj Nandy
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Who looks to Buddha Or his eight fold path It is only a namesake And has become A mere keepsake! Sadly, so... Leena