What The Thunder Said, Vol 4 | Page 10

5 Poems on Dreams, Phantasms, Foam, and Shadows

by George Nakada

"By contemplation are obtained those conditions through which is eventually gained that supreme calm, undecaying, immortal state, the phenomena of life may be likened unto dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, which is so hard to reach" - Buddha

I

Lost dreams drift to sea

And return to the white clouds

In a great cycle.

II

Nobel phantasms;

Guide me to enlightenment

In these pale shadows

III

Blazing jade sea foam

Consumes my dreams in sand

Before meeting death