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