The rocks here are rocks, the water is water,
and the spiny branches of trees are not bones.
Clouds keep sliding away,
and nothing clutches at the sky.
Well, maybe I do.
Crow, keep your opinion to yourself.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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really nice short form poem...crows are, I believe, too smart to ignore..
ReplyDeleteLorna: yes,yes, only a fool would ignore a crow!!
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Even though being ten years short, this surely moved me much, as the whole day I thought about nothing else.
ReplyDeleteRobert: i'm not quite fifty yet, and the numbers don't really mean anything, but it does make one pause to evaluate one's life ... i've really have wasted a lot of it, from any reasonable perspective ... but, heh, (shrugging) i don't know that i would have done anything differently, if i had been wiser :-)
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:) love it, made me smile in a Hughesian way. I especially like that 'and nothing clutches at the sky'.
ReplyDeleteMarion: :-) it's hard to write a crow poem without thinking of hughes :-)
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What an amazing truth and how beautifully written & photographed!! I once read that every town needs a river to forgive the town. How true. I grew up in/on the mighty Red River and have lived most of my life near it. It heals me over and over again. xo
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― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Marion: yes, there is something about water that heals, especially the flow and sound of a river. it has something to do with time, i think ... always when i am at the edge of water, time seems to move differently below the surface, where it is always about a billion B.C....
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ReplyDeletei must protest against this idea of "wasting" :-) nothing is wasted, otherwise you couldn't take such photos and write such poems, you couldn't simply SIT like you do, on the banks of a river...
ReplyDeleteRoxana: well, i certainly HAVE learned to sit, some would say only too well!! :-)) but, yes, thank you for believing this ... and, in fact, i wouldn't change anything of the past that would result in changing this moment ... amor fati has become easier in the past year and a half, especially, for reasons you know :-))
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