Origins
What
if work-a-day mornings ended in the freedom of the blank page?
The
pen hesitant, driven neither by deadlines, nor money, nor ego.
The
mind calm. No disciples. No one to teach. Contemplation never spinning
into a story like tropical winds fed by the memory of the sun on
warm seas become, to their surprise, a hurricane whirling irresistibly
north.
Instead,
the ever changing offers sufficient fascination, limitless trails
of
voluptuous beauty. Red bud trees, magnolias, forsythia exploding into bloom,
the gnarled trunks of the old beeches marching like elephants though the forest,
calling you on and on with their endless tales of light, texture and
aroma that leaves no need to stop to tell others.
We are on trails where
time itself dissolves, becoming
before and after, lives encapsulated in a blink,
as they are, but without conscious infirmity, suffused not with forgetting and passivity, but with joy, with
vigorous curiosity, calmly accepting the offering that
pulls
us along in the adventure that we share with others met in that forest
in their own raptures, the passions melding, adding something even more to the world, a new society—without
solipsism, greed or war, whose motor is intuitive need and sharing, the pageant of the gift.
And, as is well known, knowledge of everything, of tov i ra, did come into Eden
with familiar and, I suppose, inevitable consequence, as necessity,
fate, or choice unfolds along with endless, selfless fascination, disclosing everything, explaining everything, experiencing
everything and telling one another the tale. The memory
become the story of consequence, of blessing and curse.
Innocence, the blank page, in practice the inevitable progenitor.
What
if work-a-day mornings ended in the freedom of the blank page?
The
pen hesitant, driven neither by deadlines, nor money, nor ego.
The
mind calm. No disciples. No one to teach. Contemplation never spinning
into a story like tropical winds fed by the memory of the sun on
warm seas become, to their surprise, a hurricane whirling irresistibly
north.
Instead,
the ever changing offers sufficient fascination, limitless trails
of
voluptuous beauty. Red bud trees, magnolias, forsythia exploding into bloom,
the gnarled trunks of the old beeches marching like elephants though the forest,
calling you on and on with their endless tales of light, texture and
aroma that leaves no need to stop to tell others.
We are on trails where
time itself dissolves, becoming
before and after, lives encapsulated in a blink,
as they are, but without conscious infirmity, suffused not with forgetting and passivity, but with joy, with
vigorous curiosity, calmly accepting the offering that
pulls
us along in the adventure that we share with others met in that forest
in their own raptures, the passions melding, adding something even more to the world, a new society—without
solipsism, greed or war, whose motor is intuitive need and sharing, the pageant of the gift.
And, as is well known, knowledge of everything, of tov i ra, did come into Eden
with familiar and, I suppose, inevitable consequence, as necessity,
fate, or choice unfolds along with endless, selfless fascination, disclosing everything, explaining everything, experiencing
everything and telling one another the tale. The memory
become the story of consequence, of blessing and curse.
Innocence, the blank page, in practice the inevitable progenitor.
What
if work-a-day mornings ended in the freedom of the blank page?
The
pen hesitant, driven neither by deadlines, nor money, nor ego.
The
mind calm. No disciples. No one to teach. Contemplation never spinning
into a story like tropical winds fed by the memory of the sun on
warm seas become, to their surprise, a hurricane whirling irresistibly
north.
Instead,
the ever changing offers sufficient fascination, limitless trails
of
voluptuous beauty. Red bud trees, magnolias, forsythia exploding into bloom,
the gnarled trunks of the old beeches marching like elephants though the forest,
calling you on and on with their endless tales of light, texture and
aroma that leaves no need to stop to tell others.
We are on trails where
time itself dissolves, becoming
before and after, lives encapsulated in a blink,
as they are, but without conscious infirmity, suffused not with forgetting and passivity, but with joy, with
vigorous curiosity, calmly accepting the offering that
pulls
us along in the adventure that we share with others met in that forest
in their own raptures, the passions melding, adding something even more to the world, a new society—without
solipsism, greed or war, whose motor is intuitive need and sharing, the pageant of the gift.
And knowledge of everything, of tov i ra, did come into Eden
with familiar and inevitable consequence, as necessity, fate, or choice unfolds along with
endless, selfless fascination, disclosing everything, explaining everything, experiencing everything and telling one another
the tale. The memory
become the
story of consequence, of blessing and curse.
Innocence,
the blank page, in practice the inevitable progenitor.
Poetry