One step in/ two steps forward
Embodied and open, engaging circumstance
from within/ gauging experience
from within, using mind, body and circumstance
as the basis for parsing
everything that is. Loosely realized categories
not distinct, but changeable.
Not voiced, but felt/ not felt: sensed.
Realized when tending towards the body:
as stability and ease;
when tending towards the mind:
as awareness and clarity;
when tending towards circumstance:
as openness and compassion. Vague words
marked by aspiration
and confusion. Between aspiration and confusion
there are only: arms, legs, torso,
a body breathing. Only sitting, standing,
walking, lying down.
Only night and day, rhythmically
returning, without vantage,
outwardly borne,
from within. Not by these words
filled in with meaning,
but fully sensed
here…
and now
Wayne, I really like your poems, thank you for sharing them
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R, over time poetry can become a discipline, a mode of abiding, an expressive mindfulness
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