Two poets met, shared, and created over the Internet. Darshan Panda lives in India, Vincent Hayley in the United States. Darshan comes from Buddhist and Hindu cultures, Vincent 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.