Buddha In A Theater
buddha came to town
went to a theater
the premiere of an opera
called "Life Is Suffering"
the tenor howled
the soprano screamed
the audience applauded
buddha farted
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Life And Death
life after death is silent
as in a cemetery
mourners came and went
dirge and elegy are gone
death does not hear
a prayer eloquent or mute
death does not see
even the dark underground
when death does speak
you do not hear
when death does smile
you do not see
a song of those who are no more
cannot be sung
the singer of another world
cannot be heard
life is not a drama
world is not a stage
the theater is empty
in a abandoned town
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The Demilitarized Zone
in the valley of ten thousand mines
buried in the silence of years gone by
ten thousand flowers are about to bloom
remembering those who are no more
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Suchoon Mo is an emigre retired university academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems appeared in East and West, Bitter Oleander, Dissident Editions, Taj Mahal Review, Religious Humanism, Thunder Sandwich, Spillway Review, the Stylus Poetry Journal, Malleable Jangle, Word Riot, Word Myth, Underground Window, Tryst, Subterranean Quarterly, Orange Room Review, Round Table Review, Strange Road, Feathertale, Snake Skin, Flutter, Poetry Cemetery, and others. His music compositions appeared in Unlikely 2.0, Mad Hatters Review, Sage of Consciousness, Strange Road, The Adroitly Placed Word. He has no formal music education.
