Laymen of History
A poem by Anando Osel
once a man of suchness
made the choice
that nothing was current, and
he would never turn towards the future
eyes directed only at the past
at the history of man
the history of it all
and what we have seen as
one event after another
the man of suchness has seen
as one continual event
an unbroken cycle of human psychosis
and as we turned outward
the man of suchness never turned
his back still to us
facing history
and at his feet piled human defilement
and as ruin blocked out the sun
the man of suchness breathed out
and then in
never knowing of history
Spring 2007 Poetry:
FEATURED POET: Anna Russell
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Deepak Kapur
LAYMEN OF HISTORY by Ananda Osel
A GOOD HIMALAYAN MORNING by Nitin Das Rai
NOW 2 by Leonard Gontarek
WINNING by Miles Christian Daniels
WHITE CLOTHES by Juliet Powys
BREAKDOWN by DB Cox
THE DANCER by Tabitha Anderson
SHADY SMILES by Rikku
THE WOMAN GIRL by Brittany Jungck
A POEM OF THE NIGHT by Michael Lee Johnson
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