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Spring 1984   Vol. 1 #1
Spring 1984   Vol. 1 #1

Poems/Not Poems

Gotama in the Twentieth Century

By Jan Alovus

 
 

 

Gotama in the twentieth century

is kept from suffering

until the urge for freedom

(which embraces all)

forces confrontation

   and the palace

(beautiful but confining)

falls away.

 

Jaba

India 1921

 


From the Spring 1984 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Text © 1984–2023 by Jan Alovus

Topics

Siddhartha, Freedom, Poetry


 
 
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