How to Eat Rice?

rice

“How to Eat Rice?”

The sweetest answer is:
tenderly.
Let it lead you
to the field of yesterdays,
where hopes and fears were planted.

Listen, carefully,
for the burst of histories,
as they reveal themselves
grain by grain,
bite by bite,
breath by breath.

Hold its hands,
as it morphs
into the mother of milk,
heavily pregnant
with memories,
aromas,
missions.

Do not swallow;
let her flow
to the playground of time,
where the child of tomorrows
awaits,
grows,
multiplies.

15 November 2014

(Photo by Charles Haynes, Flickr.com, modified and distributed under the same CC license)

Four Sins (translated quatrain poem)

“Four Sins” (translated from Thai)

With transient, insidious grins………..LOVE lures;
All losses are assured …………………by GREED;
Demon’s flames flare in your…………burning, HATRED;
LUST blinds you in deceit…………….’d better drop, all sins.

18 March 2013
Cambridge


“รัก โลภ โกรธ หลง”

รัก   ย่อมแปรเปลี่ยนได้……..ตามกาล
โลภ    มักพาทรัพย์ผลาญ……..หมดสิ้น
โกรธ  ดั่งอัคคีมาร……………..ร้อนรุ่ม
หลง   ล่อลวงปลอกปลิ้น………ละได้ จึ่งดี ๚ะ

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