Paracelsus: by Diane di Prima : The Poetry Foundation

Paracelsus: by Diane di Prima : The Poetry Foundation

The Beats in India -- A Film from the Asia Society

I came across this film posted on the Allen Ginberg Blog. The video is from the Asia Society conference on the Beats in India. While India was having an important impact on American spirituality, the "Americans" gone native in turn were changing Indian economics and culture.

First Lilacs

The Lilac Thief

This year I looked for lilacs
off the beaten track
in places no longer tended –

A different kind of boundary,
long rows where once houses stood,
lots now empty.

I love the deeper purple of old bushes,
their crushed bloomets falling into my hand
taken from gnarled bark bearing heavy plumage.

I am the local lilac thief,
that one who stops to follow
the scent of unseen blossoms.

Jacqueline Gens
2004

LOSAR POEM for Year of the Water Snake

So this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
That long awaited communitas, with its panacea of universal love
Destined to unlock hard hearts.

Let the water snakes torpedo with their periscopic heads
As they propel us into sights beyond the norm to shed
Fixations, mental concepts and mean thoughts, our usual
Stale fare.

Let’s take our daily frights into the realm of self-manifest
Iridescence
Shed a skin; trade our complacency for wisdom mind
Wake to never ending freshness
And the minds true liberation

May all beings unearth the bounty of their innate treasure
And share in the grace of harmony
Released at last when love will steer the stars. 


Jacqueline Gens
Dawn
Tsegyalgar East
February 11, 2013 

Some Changes

 I retired from my job as co-director of the  New Engand College MFA program in Poetry on June 29, 2012.

I am currently developing a handmade papermaking cooperative at Tsegyalgar East in Conway.MA.

Please visit our blog Khandroling Papermaking Cooperative