Tender Hand Moon

Full Moon  July 10, 2025

Om tare tuttare ture svaha!

    — White Tara mantra

Yesterday I saw my bodhisattva guru on the computer

More than twenty years since he aroused my heart

& he is old

I am old but not as old

his tender hand clasped my face once

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His eyes, ears and legs are old as he circles the stupa

spinning a prayer wheel, murmuring prayers

& he is committed

I am committed but I wobble

in an uneven gait through the circle of my journey

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Each life a brush of wildfire

drawn through the air, through sky

a prayer that returns to luminous space

after transforming all who see it.

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