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
  

Justice and Pity

I saw a woman, beautiful but blind,
Lying upon the ground in pools of blood
And asked her name. My name, she said, is Justice.
And who has given you these cruel wounds, That thus your very lifeblood drains away?
Her name is Pity, Justice said, and died.

14.10.2000

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