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Happy 80th Birthday to HHDL

by Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith

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My mom and I performed this poem together at Carnegie Hall in NYC for the annual Tibet House benefit on March 5th, and we recorded it shortly after for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Today we offer it as a musical birthday card, and the proceeds and any extra donations will benefit Tibetan Children's Village(TCV). Learn more about TCV here: www.tcv.org.in Happy birthday, HHDL. You are a symbol of peace, hope, and compassion for all beings on this earth. Thank you for all that you do. Love, Jesse and Patti. :)

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released July 6, 2015

Poem written and performed by Patti Smith
Piano: Jesse Paris Smith

**This poem was originally written in 1995 in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 60th birthday.

A Small Entreaty
May I be nothing
but the peeling of a lotus
Papering the distance
For you underfoot
One lone skin
To lift and fashion
As cap to cradle
Your bowing head
An ear to hear
The great horn
A slipper to mount
The temple steps
One lone skin
Bearing this wish
May your hands be full of nothing
May your toys scatter the sky
Tiny yellow bundles
Bursting like stars
Like smiles
And the laughter of a bell

Patti Smith

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