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2019, 7*, blindness, blogging, branches, breakfast, breathing, canopy, coffee, dark, echo, energy, eyes, flash, gooseberry, ground, growth, jam, leaves, life, light, living, monkey, path, reaching, reading, samsara, seeing, shadow, sound, sunlight, toast, trees, walking, way, wind, woodland
breakfast
these shadows on a long walk
through the woodland with only occasional sun
all there, underneath the undergrowth
cannot see the ground, the stems that grow from it
branches reach, leaves envelope everywhere
from nowhere; weave
and grow round and entwine each other;
if I lift the leaves to see my way forward –
searching for light, searching for life
to grow, to continue – and if I break the smaller branches to
make way
I will scratch my arms, sap will sting my skin, my
eyes, I cannot see, I cannot see;
and I won’t see; some trees
are quicker and older (than me)
they hold the path and reach wide,
and creepers make them fat
and vines hang like curtains of water;
the canopy above, maximised
to greatest energy, sent back down through rough wires;
only when the wind leans
or a monkey leaps, is there a flash of light, gone by the
time I’ve looked back down to the path
blinded, to see where I am
there must be so much light somewhere
out there, if only I weren’t stumbling around and bleeding
… really; I come downstairs
and breathe coffee and spiced home – made gooseberry jam on home – made toast
while reading my posts … yes,
a thousand hacks and sap in the dark
where I cannot see
and cannot know where I am
a thousand ‘choks’ deferred
the undergrowth too dense to echo
Bodhisattvacharyavatara chapter VI, verse 12: How can I attain happiness when the causes for happiness are obtained only through great effort and very rarely, and when the seeds of pain and sorrow are so prevalent, relentless and multifarious that they are realised easily and without any effort? And yet it is only from suffering that the thought and longing for escape and liberation from the suffering of conditioned existence will come about … therefore, O my deepest mind, hold yourself strong, patient, steadfast!
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branches & breathing wormhole: blue sky high
coffee wormhole: green and / luminant / to behold
echo & path & walking wormhole: the Bodhisattva set out / for the Seat of Awakening
eyes & life wormhole: eyes like petals
leaves & living wormhole: everything is caused by something, which / something is caused by something else, nothing / stands alone where all pass as phantoms
light & trees wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – sooner; / and later
reading wormhole: {reading right to left}
samsara & sound wormhole: at Kreukenhof
seeing wormhole: A Solitude by Denise Levertov
shadow wormhole: alabaster balustrade
wind wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – The Valley
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