Your Black And White Photograph

by Suchoon Mo

thank you
for your photograph
a black and white photograph
of a young woman
you
in another time
another place

you are sitting by the kitchen table
in the light from the window
your are smiling

it is quiet here now
silent autumn morning

I am sitting by the kitchen table
in the light from the window
I am smiling

time is mute
so is space
in your black and white photograph

Silk Road Mantra

by Suchoon Mo

bury me not
in the lone Silk Road
I go and go
from west to east

I go and go
from east to west
bury me not
in the lone Silk Road

Let Us Dance White House, Congress and Mass Media / Dance of Swallows

by Suchoon Mo

 my dear lady
 let us dance
 together you and I
 cheek to cheek
 entwined

 I shall dance polka
 you may dance tango
 or vice versa

 the music doesn't matter
 nor the dance
 musicians are drunk
 and so are we
 let us just dance


Dance Of Swallows - Suchoon Mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGKQj4SPess

Welcome To Salt Lake City

by Suchoon Mo

I am going to Salt Lake City
a Mormon city
the cradle of Church of Latter Day Saints

I am flying to Salt Lake City
in a Delta Airlines jet airplane

I hear a young  woman flight attendant speaking
relentlessly too fast for me to make any sense

she sounds like saying

ladies and gentlemen
we are descending
please buckle your seat belt securely
until it falls apart

welcome to Salt Lake City!

Damn Zen

by Suchoon Mo

uber ubiquitous
unter linden teeth flossen
ramen chowmen lumpen chicken
ach mach doch bach ich zuch ouch!
das des damn das kranken dasein
hare krishna semen zen zu hoboken

Saint Valentine Day

by Suchoon Mo

Saint Valentine day
eat your chocolate alone
silent sparrows upon the roof
they are not mating

A True Buddhist

by Suchoon Mo

as a true Buddhist vacuum cleaner has no attachment
a true Buddhist has no appendix

as Shiva with 14 arms dances on the stage
an armless monk holds an empty begging bowl

the bell ringer at Wal Mart has no bell
ding dong ding dong Merry Christmas

The Bryan-Darrow Bible Controversy

by Suchoon Mo

for corrupting Eve
God punished the snake
to crawl on stomach since

aha!
interesting

how did the snake move before then
hopping around on tail?

Four Poems

by Suchoon Mo

Awakening

a cat barks
a mouse farts

the sound of awakening

in silence
the buddha meditates

Sin

whenever she sings
she omits "g"
she sins

d

ever since she met david and married him
she has been stuttering at d

d-d-d-david
d-d-d-damn you!

d-d-d-
d-d-d-

Duet

together two women sing
one sings a serenade
the other sings an elegy
they sing a same song
they sing a requiem