Ray Quesada Poems

I stare into a lonely nighttime puddle
'Don't Worry' tattoo'd on her right wrist;
'Be Happy' on the left
-She puts out a cigarette
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Hamsters in a hamster world
hamster boys and hamster girls
drive their cars and go to work every day
the unspoken 'social contract' is why they stay
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...Her complexity still lures suitors;
She goes through men like cigarettes
Savoring each puff
until her personality has burned them up
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Let your eyes
cradle the world before you
cradle and admire,
as a mother sees all
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With my spirit humbled by knowledge of Compassion, Suffering, and Eternity, and with the kindness of Buddha radiating through beginingless time, I offer a sincere wish for all beings, past, present, and future.

This wish does not discriminate any single being, from the greatest teacher, to the lowliest lifeform or the most criminal soul, in past, present, or future lives, which are eternally connected. I speak this wish in pure honesty, from the deepest Essence of my being, the Essence I have shared with all beings in infinite lives together.
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Someday we'll be one
Mrs. Ground; Mr. Sun
Someday I'll be grass
and your feet will pass
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Serious, Noble Eyes
Color of the Earth - color of Mystery-
Color of Simplicity and gorgeous
human Dignity
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A soul rose up
from a body in the night
went down the stairs
slid out the door
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America is High - The man
who changes your oil is high.
The priest is drunk -
The teacher; the mother;
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There's a pain inside my mind
it seems to make my teeth grind
there's a pain inside my chest
it comes at times when i'm most stressed
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