Look around…
This is my body, broken for you
into grey majestic tree bark
and computer screens
and funky ducks.
Look! I am Christmas lights gleaming from garland
and scrap paper.
I am your VISA bill.
I am those photographs and your thought
that there must be something more,
something more than this.
Like that fishing reel hanging on the wall,
we’ve swallowed the hook and misunderstood,
thinking we’re silver-glinting fish
called Kathy or John or chickadee or poem
when we’re really
the arising,
all of it,
my body broken for you
into imperfect perfection.
Wonderful.
Thank you, Edward.
This is very Rumi, and very Hafiz…
“All the Hemispheres
Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.”
From: ‘The Subject Tonight is Love’
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/hafiz.html#anchor_16045
“Change rooms in your mind for a day.”
and then when we greet ourselves in our thousand other forms we’ll be astonished, totally astonished, at the variation and expression of Oneness. Thanks for the poetry perfume, Nicole.
Amen
Amen, sigh the leaves in the tree. Amen, chirps the chickadee. Amen, howls the VISA bill.
I was going to yell “EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!” but I like this better:
Amen, sigh the leaves in the tree. Amen, chirps the chickadee. Amen, howls the VISA bill.
EXACTLY!!! yells the funky duck. EXACTLY!!! shrieks the blue jay. EXACTLY!! yells OM before she sighs Amen and Kathy smiles.
Oh, my . . . I am so very entertained wondering what iteration of existence I might could choose today.
Just think! The world is our oyster…or forest…or mountain range!
Wonderful, Kathy.
It’s a wonderful life, Robin.