What has The Buddha
to do with rice?
Rice,
The Buddha?
Water
takes the shape
of the bowl.
Without,
it spills to the ground.
Dries in the dirt.
Without rice,
Buddha dies.
Turns to dust
as iron to rust..
Blown away by a breeze,
by a breath,
into air,
into thin air.
And where is
The Buddha then?
Rice
for purpose,
needs The Buddha
Sidhartha,
to be Buddha
needs rice.
Poems by Ken 