Unattached
To baubles and grasping bodies
Frivolous with craving
New moon crescent tusks
Stephen A. Rozwenc, an American expat poet who resides in Thailand, shares his poetry
Stephen A. Rozwenc is an American expat poet who resides in Thailand. He has published 6 collections of poetry. Four of his books are currently available on Amazon Books. In the last 12 years alone more than 300 of his poems have appeared in print journals and online venues in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. 20 of his haiku poems will shortly appear in a bilingual anthology published in China. This anthology will be distributed in 16 Asian countries. He has also published a collection of translations of famous Russian poets in collaboration with Victor Peppard, a Russian language, literature, and culture professor from the University of South Florida.
Telepathy devotion
Telepathy devotion Unattached
To baubles and grasping bodies
Frivolous with craving
New moon crescent tusks
Guide supreme reality’s
Elephant consciousness
Sculpted limitless
An inquiring trunk tip
Tenderly curls
Telepathy devotion
Milks bereavement
From homicidal greed
Like a laughing Buddha’s
Fat watch belly
Gives mirth birth
Too soft as butter meditation
2.
One of the many dogs
Lounging
Buddha serene
In the temple’s cool palm tree shade
Suddenly twists his head
To snap at an itchy flea bite
And begins to fulfill
A harmless karma
Hunched birdlike
While they perch on a shiny marble bench
Nearby
Two white haired old men
With shrinking teeth
Quietly remind one another
Anger greed and obsession
Are poisonous shoes
Never to be acted from
If they wish their next life
Will merit a happy death.
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