Rayn Roberts studied English Literature under the poet, Lee Geralch, whose own mentor was the poet and critic, Ivar Winters. Roberts taught English in Asia for nearly 17 years and now lives near Seattle. His poetry is in books and journals in including Rattle, The Sow’s Ear Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Pedestal Magazine, The Golden Lantern, City Works, PoetsWest, Thunder Sandwich, The Pedestal Magazine, Poet's Corner in Fieralingue and more. His most recent book, from Poetic Matrix Press, “Of One and Many Worlds.” is available on Amazon with others. In 2006 he was included by Evolving Editions in their interfaith understanding series “Illuminations, Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience” and in 2017 a poem was included in “Along the Shore” an Anthology from Lost Tower Press, London, United Kingdom. His poetry is also in The San Diego Poetry Annual, Garden Oak Press in association with the San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild SDEAG 2016,2017, The Book of Hope & The World Healing Book from Beyond Borders Press ~ In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief by Foothills Publishing and Sherman Asher and The Philosophical Library of Escondido California's New Anthology entitled Paths. For more info. Google Rayn Roberts @ Poets & Writers.
Buddha before enlightenment: starved, bony
Our world, showing the bones of war, bones of desire-
Look to the moment with hope to survive
Enlightenment is here, yet we think we move toward it.
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Sometime before the land turned away from light
The wind in the wild mustard slowed
The sun, being where is always is, the moon too
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They led us to sunlight on the grass beside the school
Brought an extension cord, a phonograph with a box
Of many colored long silks, played the Firebird
La Mer, Swan Lake, and suddenly
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