the child hugs
her cloth monkey…
hailstorm
-Issa, 1813
(this one reminds me of Mikayla & Jadyn)
Archive for October, 2006
hailstorm
Posted in Issa, favorite things, haiku on October 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Memories – eleven years old. “Sanctuary”
Posted in Memories, me on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Running -
out the back door
across the yard
through the cornfield
down the banks of the ravine
past stinging nettles.
* * *
Down, down to the creek,
and the great, gray rock
that formed an island
in the trickling water.
* * *
Sitting alone,
on the rough stone,
enveloped by the cool, green stillness
of my sanctuary.
“Lord, I do fear Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year”
Posted in favorite things on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Oh world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds, thy wide gray skies!
thy mists that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with color! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, world, I cannot get thee close enough!
Long have I known a glory [...]
Take joy
Posted in favorite things on October 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in
this present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it,
yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and
glory in the darkness could we but see – and to see
we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life [...]
Only the hand that erases..
Posted in Meister Eckhart, favorite things on October 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
“In my hut this spring”
Posted in favorite things, haiku on October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In my hut this spring
there is nothing.
There is everything.
Yamaguchi Sodo (1643-1716)
“Afternoon on a Hill”
Posted in favorite things on October 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ceaseless becoming
Posted in favorite things on October 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Things do not begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop;
there is simply ceaseless becoming.
R.H. Blyth Haiku Volume 1
humming of unseen harps
Posted in favorite things on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There are vast realms of consciousness
still undreamed of,
vast ranges of experience,
like the humming of unseen harps
we know nothing of,
within us.
D.H. Lawrence
Tao of Heaven
Posted in favorite things, tao on October 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Tao of Heaven
doesn’t struggle, but it wins through.
It doesn’t ask
yet it always hears the answer.
It doesn’t demand
yet things come, because they want to be.
It has no desires
yet everything works out as if planned.
And though the [...]
