to join it in wordless praise?
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and with good fortune
into a poem; so thatthe poem then may seed itselfinto a new experience;like two young loversone the poem’s beginningthe other the poem’s end,looking, looking, in a crowd of thousands,seeing each other, running toward –the crowd so alienthen so soon, love.
To My Beloved I said
tell me of Yourself;I yearn to knowMy Beloved saidO my dearest one,tell me, rather, of yourself;for only in knowing yourselfand knowing what you do not knowmay you know Myselfto My Beloved I saidI breathe; and yetI was never taught to breathe.I breathe perfectly;who taught me then, to breathe?In the light of the Sun,I see all…
There has to be a reason:
It’s not just that they jump up the sofa to the windowand bark excitedly even when the postman’s invisible down the street;that’s smart; but they don’t stop at that. For those of uswho still have letterboxes in our front doors,every one’s a tasty finger-trap…and open the front doorto take the parcel – and all hell…
Who today would praise
which brings new life and thoughtevery morning, openingour minds a little more,making the light seem brighter,everything more vivid,life itself more worth living?This morning, I read the words‘Love itself is understanding’…and in the mind, doors blew open,windows rattled, a windthat smelled of spring and grass and rainblew through the mindand the word loveblew off the dusty…
Let’s not go into the matter of that
shames us in the eyes of ourprissy neighbours (we call itour ‘poetic arbour’, wherecamelopards roam) –mowing the lawn – that’s all I can managebetween poetic stints:it’s hell when you put it off –the wife, the pointed looks fromthose prissy neighbours, thepricks of social conscience, andthe guilt…oh the guilt…sins of omission, all that stuff, I’min and…
But hold on a minute –
Is it a fair game? Are the teamsequally matched? Have theyboth got wealthy sponsors?Can they both afford thoseinternational mercenaries?Is it – excuse the metaphor –a level playing field? …Some say it’s the oldestreligion in the world, withthe largest number of currentdevotees.. even those of uswho say we’re agnostic, atheist, ornever got the voting paper,secretly keep…