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It's a new poetic form...making three-line verse out of random search phrases from your Sitemeter. In other words, these (each line) are phrases someone somewhere typed into a search engine, and got my blog as a result.

Awake

Solstice season thoughts

Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores, almond,
that closes tightly in and sweetens,--
this entire world out to all the stars is your fruit-flesh: we greet you.

Look, you feel how nothing any longer clings to you;
your husk is in infinity,
and there the strong juice stands and crowds.
And from outside a radiance assists it, for high above,
your suns in full splendor have wheeled blazingly around.
Yet already there's begun inside you
what lasts beyond the suns.

--Ranier Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow from New Poems
Thanks to Rob Brezsny for featuring the Rilke poem this week.

Poetry

Immigrant Song
Kathmandu, Nepal

Clothed in facts

Truth feels oppressed;

in the garb of poetry

it moves easy and free

-Rabindranath Tagore

Mr Wangchuk at Indian Embassy says "something" will be issued tomorrow. The suspense is killing me!

All this week's posts have 1980s song titles as headlines.
Extra points for figuring out who did "Poetry." (I have no idea what the points mean, or what they could be used for. )

(NO extra points will be issued for figuring out who did "Immigrant Song," which is 1970s anyway.)

Yes, I'm just uploading old photos today. I got tired of complaining...and thought it better to reflect on some of the amazing moments of the past few years.
Above: Newar kids dressed as gods for a day, at the Kumari Ghar, Kathmandu, September 2006.

: This peacock just showed up at the new Murugan Temple in Parayakadavu, Kerala, just before the pran - patishtha "breath giving" ceremony for the god. The Peacock is the special animal associated with the god Murugan - May, 2005

: Waiting for HH the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Children's Village, April 2007, Himachal.

Below: Aurovilleans prepare for the "Golden Day," which comes once every 4 years on February 29, 2004; Tamil Nadu.

: Twilight falls on Pashupatinath as seen from the Mrigasthali (Deer Forest), Kathmandu, 2006