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ole a knowledge oneness in a few of its facets so to repeat the opening question is this a complicated poem no see through to the point it springs from and complicated isn t a word that arises with this poem translucent maybe or light or even simple or what do you think lagt inn av thekla kl 2 16 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etiketter favourites poem saturday february 22 2014 fluttering thoughts a short installation here as i am waiting to have a proper post ready which means working really not waiting leave your front door and your back door open allow your thoughts to come and go just don t serve them tea shunryu suzuki lagt inn av thekla kl 12 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 12 2014 david whyte ten years later david whyte has visited this blog earlier in his poem the well of grief as well as his poem called faith this poem called ten years later shares an underlying depth and silence with the other two this is what most draws me to his writing it is in the latter half of this poem that i feel the almost magical depth and quiet when waking at the edge of the unknown is floating up through his words the first half more serves as preparation and analogy to the latter which of course means that it is completely necessary to and part of the depth of the ending laying the ground for our mind heart and being to take in the whole let s see the poem first ten years later when the mind is clear and the surface of the now still now swaying water slaps against the rolling kayak i find myself near darkness paddling again to yellow island every spring wildflowers cover the grey rocks every year the sea breeze ruffles the cold and lovely pearls hidden in the center of the flowers as if remembering them by touch alone a calm and lonely trembling beauty that frightened me in youth now their loneliness feels familiar one small thing i ve learned these years how to be alone and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world innocence is what we allow to be gifted back to us once we ve given ourselves away there is one world only the one to which we gave ourselves utterly and to which one day we are blessed to return this is a rather long poem if haiku and the like model the way you prefer poetic expression understatement and synthesis of language image and understanding being key terms still if you hold it in your mind it feels like a haiku it speaks from the same place throughout beginning with more earthy expressions and then honing it in to the bone of the dark matter the aloneness in the centre of the flowers is a trembling goosebumply beautiful image that almost makes me cry certainly shivering i can understand so well what he means when he says this used to frighten him in youth cold yet lovely pearls in the centre of a flowering beauty limited to a short summer hinting of a great aloneness and a terrific and terrifying beauty beauty and innocence can be hard to bear and then how the i after a break of all the years until present knows this loneliness from inside with it a certain nobleness comes i feel the nobility of being human the nobility that lies in humanness big puffy words perhaps but this i feel to be true being human or the human condition if you like includes the sheerest simplicity the purest innocence the deepest aloneness and in this state of humanness we can sink into the quiet and depth of knowing ourselves from within which usually is accompanied by the aloneness whyte refers to how to be alone how simple and beautiful these words are and almost blurred by the surrounding sentences in this poem one small thing i ve learned these years how to be alone and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world this ending this rounding up and padding of the central statement how to be alone is so simple clear gentle three words which i find to be connected with humanness aloneness is important and necessary in order to know oneself and function from a substantial and personal place but so also is being found by the world particularly important i think when you have lowered yourself into that quiet and spacious place of personal knowing and recognition the interplay between aloneness and being found by the world that is paramount in these lives of ours lagt inn av thekla kl 4 29 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etiketter poem wednesday june 12 2013 the choice of reclusion adrienne rich and me on emily dickinson i am travelling at the speed of time along the massachusetts turnpike for months for years for most of my life i have been hovering like an insect against the screens of an existence which inhabited amherst massachusetts between 1831 and 1884 thus starts the essay on emily dickinson written by adrienne rich she as i have done myself sees dickinson as someone who chose living withdrawn from the rest of the world in order to write or simply to have a freedom most women of her time did not have in a way jane austen did something of the same refusing a proposal by a man she couldn t really stand though and søren kierkegaard happy 200 years who broke his engagement to his fiancée called regine causing quite the scandal in 19th century copenhagen in order to work and write he saw this as necessary although painful in our day we want it all i am of course acquainted with lyndall gordon s theory in the book lives like loaded guns where an argument is made for how emily dickinson retreated into her house due to epilepsy which is also a likely possibility but thinking that she chose this fate in order to be free and able to write is quite plausible and also a bit more poetic i remember thinking almost exactly what rich expresses here i have a notion that genius knows itself that dickinson chose her seclusion knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed it was moreover no hermetic retreat but a seclusion which included a wide range of people of reading and correspondence emily knew she was special and how could she be able to write in a traditional family life back in the 1800s she saw the possibility of staying in her house filled with books flowers and baking and filled her life with writing poetry letters and everyday notes to family members including sister in law sue this was obviously an important way for her to keep in contact with people through the written word she was letting people know who she was how she was thinking and expressing herself and also of course keeping up human relationships of sorts my friends are my estate she wrote in a letter forgive me then the avarice to hoard them rhythm and elegance of expression seem to run through her every wording the community was close and emily dickinson was an active part of it in her way that she was seen as different is no secret but she was valued in her differentness there were even some rather daft in my opinion girls who tried to mimick her reclusiveness like her specialness lay in her staying indoors she was known as a writer in her own day though she didn t publish more than seven poems during her lifetime not always in her own name and always edited away from her strongly individual style possibly the fact that she was a woman clouded the minds of her early editors i e mabel l todd and compelled them to beautify dickinson s poetry in order to please the eyes of the readers of her time or it was simply emily dickinson s stark talent and expression and her difference from any other thinker writer that initially made them force her writing into a mould they could accept as poetry i ll conclude with adrienne rich s words given her vocation she was neither eccentric nor quaint she was determined to survive to use her powers to practice necessary economies a bold choice gaining us her readers lagt inn av thekla kl 2 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etiketter emily dickinson wednesday may 08 2013 beautiful ink painting by wang yu 王云 1968 in waiting for a new post here on the blog i wish to share this beautiful image by wang yu if anyone is wondering why there has been so little activity for the last year my nine and a half month old daughter is the answer see you lagt inn av thekla kl 4 03 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 28 2012 t s eliot s dark night east coker iii t s eliot four quartets you might have seen me going on about it before today on this pentecostal national holiday i got to thinking about this excerpt from east coker the second of four quartets there is something incredibly restful and silent and vast about this section of the poem the darkness eliot evokes digs itself into me creating space where it goes emptiness and darkness we all carry it within and i don t mean in a negative way from emptiness comes everything as we know from the big bang iii o dark dark dark they all go into the dark the vacant interstellar spaces the vacant into the vacant the captains merchant bankers eminent men of letters the generous patrons of art the statesmen and the rulers distinguished civil servants chairmen of many committees industrial lords and petty contractors all go into the dark and dark the sun and moon and the almanach de gotha and the stock exchange gazette the directory of directors and cold the sense and lost the motive of action and we all go with them into the silent funeral nobody s funeral for there is no one to bury i said to my soul be still and let the dark come upon you which shall be the darkness of god as in a theatre the lights are extinguished for the scene to be changed with a hollow rumble of wings with a movement of darkness on darkness and we know that the hills and the trees the distant panorama and the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away or as when an underground train in the tube stops too long between stations and the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence and you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about or when under ether the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing i said to my soul be still and wait without hope for hope would be hope for the wrong thing wait without love for love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting wait without thought for you are not ready for thought so the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing whisper of running streams and winter lightning the wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry the laughter in the garden echoed ecstasy not lost but requiring pointing to the agony of death and birth you say i am repeating something i have said before i shall say it again shall i say it again in order to arrive there to arrive where you are to get from where you are not you must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy in order to arrive at what you do not know you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance in order to possess what you do not possess you must go by the way of dispossession in order to arrive at what you are not you must go through the way in which you are not and what you do not know is the only thing you know and what you own is what you do not own and where you are is where you are not nobody s funeral for there is no one to bury i said to my soul be still and let the dark come upon you which shall be the darkness of god wait without thought for you are not ready for thought so the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing these are paradoxical sentences but they are opening a well of wisdom in us i find we understand them as we are humans not machines working on algorithms and binary codes i am sinking into this text heart hue and hide the vacant interstellar spaces the vacant into the vacant this always hurls me into a great vastness and makes my chest light up like a starry night s sky the darkness emptiness space and light all at once oh dark dark dark they all go into the dark yes we do and how i cherish it how restful it is i particularily like how eliot doesn t use commas between the three darks and how he stops there before starting a new sentence it gives the theme of this section i think quiet yet deep the whole of the last bit is only paradox perhaps it tells you something anyway i am particularly drawn to in order to arrive at what you are not you must go through the way in which you are not it gives me the sense that i am already here already in place already arrived at what i believe i am searching for it gives me glimpses of timelessness and a vastness completely unrelated to space something outside of it all and this something is in us all along and we are in it if you want a musical companion to this dark silent and deep piece try bach s chaconne not while you re reading perhaps but after don t want to spoil the rhythm of eliot s words or the simplicity and complexity of this everunfolding piece of music it surely opens up something in me lagt inn av thekla kl 4 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etiketter favourites poem tuesday april 17 2012 jorge luis borges everness everness one thing does not exist oblivion god saves the metal and he saves the dross and his prophetic memory guards from loss the moons to come and those of evenings gone everything is the shadows in the glass which in between the day s two twilights you have scattered by the thousands or shall strew henceforward in the mirrors that you pass and everything is part of that diverse crystalline memory the universe whoever through its endless mazes wanders hears door on door click shut behind his stride and only from the sunset s farther side shall view at last the archetypes and the splendors translated from spanish by richard wilbur this poem was given me by jacques felix in his comment to my previous post on borges the immortal it bears the mark of borges all right the first line unlocks the door into the borgesian universe oblivion does not exist because the universe is a memory a consciousness we are parts of the universe meaning we are the universe itself and are expressions of that memory that consciousness everything is the blankness of oblivion is mirrored by the sparkly shiny image of the stars and moon by mirrors themselves and by crystal a nd everything is part of that diverse crystalline memory the universe and the last line brings back the everness the archetypes and the splendors this poem is so simple yet so intricate and deep time is nowhere the universe is a memory a consciousness lagt inn av thekla kl 9 02 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etiketter favourites poem saturday april 07 2012 jorge luis borges the immortal by gisela giardino reading borges ficciones is 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