Escape from Samsara: Poems
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Escape from Samsara - Vijay R. Nathan
Contents
Magic 8
My Dear Doppelganger
Roundabout
Avoid Eye Contact
Someday, Indefinitely Postponed
Pluto Ricochet
Box Office Graffiti
Triggers
Room 32
Confession Poem
Trapped in a Green House
Versus Nature
Singular
The Oracle at the Mall
Tarot Hold ‘Em
Degenerate Times
A Fresh Start
Receiving Buddhist Teachings in Malaga, Spain
Eat the Sun
The Real Meaning of Lightning
The Real Meaning of Lightning
A Quiet Reflection
3 Little Bobcats
Virtual Intrigue
The Last Time
Dinner is Served
Collage of Wings
Underwater Moonwalk
Out of Step
After the Dorje Shugden Empowerment
Rebirth
The Two Way Mirror
Escape from Samsara
Escape From Samsara
After Hours
Fluorescent Rene Descartes
RE: A Quality Control Issue
The Axiological Idealists and the Cosmothetical Realists
Channel Surfing
Insight with Ice
The Himalayan Riders
A Las Vegas Poem
The Second Challenge
The Fast Lane
Cannibal Poet
Kulfi
A Teacher’s Lament
Fear Monger
Kaleidoscope
Central Park Epiphany
Acknowledgements
© 2016 Vijay Ramanathan
The poems Escape from Samsara
and Versus Nature
were first published in Newtown Literary Journal Spring/Summer 2015 issue.
ISBN: 978-1-48358-061-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-48358-062-3 (ebook)
Samsara: The psychological process by which we habitually create the world we exist in moment
by moment.
Escape from Samsara: The psychological process by which we break free of our habitual states of mind to discover inner peace.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
– Dogen
Magic 8
My Dear Doppelganger
I cannot dream of losing myself
so I will answer with a gesture
even if I have to repeat it over
and over again. Dearest echo, please return
to me, my Valentine boomerang circling
in the desert night air. I love myself now