First Thought, Best Thought: 108 Poems by Chogyam Trungpa

Author:Chogyam Trungpa
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780394732695
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 1984-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

48

MISSING THE POINT

Brain hemorrhage

Sick pigeon

Trust in the heart

Good soldier

Neat girl in the cosmic whorehouse—

Our minds becoming bigger and smaller

As if they were Lynn’s mustache

Which gets bigger and smaller as he talks.

Stalagmite stalactite

Mutual love affair—

Today I rose relatively early.

My thoughts are constant

Like a leak in an old castle

Plop plop plop ploo plop.

Things go on—

Suddenly a nasty thought,

Deep sigh;

Pleasant thought,

Longing sigh.

The chatters of Hasprays continue like subconscious gossip.

Does mind speak?

Does mind walk?

Sometimes walk speak,

Speak walk.

Who is instigating all this?

Maybe the uranium that makes atom bombs

Shooting star

Allegorical presentation of the dharma

Historical confirmation of the antidisestablishmentarian sophistication of the seemingly sane society of the past.

July Fourth

Flash of fireworks—

At the same time,

Lingering thought tells me

My private secretary is really drunk.

Nitpicking

Farfetched—

This rock is problematic:

If it were arranged,

It could complain to the artist;

But since it is not,

No one to sue.

Expectation of the future is too much.

Glory be to somebody’s cow dung—

It is too lucid to blame.

There goes everything

Down the drain.

4 July 1975

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