Weand#8217;ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshitaand#8217;s poems over the next few weeks. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled and#8220;The Modern Bardand#8221;. Selected from and#8220;An Autobiographical Sequence of Poemsand#8221;, read by the author and recorded at FWBO celebrations in London, September 1990.