Two poets met, shared, and created over the Internet. One is from India, the other from the United States, one from Buddhist and Hindu cultures, the other from a land of individualism and practicality. What these two poets have in common is that they have learned to pause, to slow life. Through their poetry, they have provided for themselves and for us opportunities to listen and reflect, in the midst of our international sound-byte news days of religious and political competition, ideology, conflict, intolerance, and brutality.