Ganges Satori

There is so much beauty here
my eyes cannot absorb
nor tongue describe
the Ganges at Benares
mother calling to her sidlings
chiding
come along now
get in step with Mother Ganges.

Ganja Sadhu - 1 Pashupatinath, India

Ganja Sadhu - 1   Pashupatinath - Near Kathmandu  1984

Krishna Statue - Whitfield, India

Krishna Image - Sai Baba Ashram - Whitfield, India  1986

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Lepers India - 1985

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Lepers buying black tar opium from government shop. Puri, India – 1985

Postcard From India

Oarsman

Creaking oarlocks take us out

Into the pale fog mist

This holy river

Ganges

Ancient oarsman rowing

Slowly . . . without effort

Drifting with the current

Muddy vein of life

Unending

Mother of the world.

Great cities come and go along her shore

He tells me

Mighty temples rise up over centuries

Adoring God

Then fall to earth

Forsaken by him

As this timeless current flows

As this water

Passes by

Forever.