New Poems by Sangharakshita

This section contains recent (1999-2002) poems, not
previously published in any media.
 
WRITINGS INDEX
·
· Dancing round the Maypole
· The Warning Voice
· Then and Now
· Queens Past and Present
· The Economic Argument
· The Double Root
· Poet and Muse
· The Listener
· Three Arthurian Poems
· In Krakow
· Guhyaloka, September 1999
· East is East
· To My Teacher, Chetrul Sangye Dorje
· The Six Elements Speak
· The Great Burning
· Remembering Arthadarshin
· The Silver Spoon
· To Michal, with a Photograph
· I am Sitting in the Late Afternoon Sunshine...
· Epigrams
· Justice and Pity
· Haikus
·ARTICLES
· BOOK REVIEWS
· OLD POEMS
·EDITORIAL
  

East is East

East is East and West is West
And ever the twain shall meet.
Opposites belong to each other,
Like sour and sweet.

East is East and West is West
Each for himself discovers.
Love and hate are near akin,
Fratricidal, yet brothers.

8.9.1999

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