Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, Haiku-ish, landscape, Poetry on October 7, 2019| 5 Comments »
—
Cuckoo sings to cuckoo.
The morning is a still lake
Reflecting silver light.
—
I give the mountain my breath.
The mountain gives me back silence.
We rest motionless.
—
The river has a poet’s mouth,
Meandering and easy,
Called by sunlit and dangerous horizons.
—
Rain dissolves the view
Sitting still
Surrounded with birdsong
–
Resting in silence
We become the view.
Who holds this bowl?
–
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, dhrupad, moments, Poetry, river, song, Sound on January 30, 2019| 8 Comments »
DHRUPAD 20 (this moment)
Look, look, look now, this this this moment
this this moment, how it is, how it is,
this this moment, how it is, how still
how fast, how still, how fast, how sweet
how fast, river river river singing fast
how this moment river singing fast, singing fast
and slow slow light filters down filters leaf down
green down wavering waving wavering
leaf green filter down and dreaming
and dreaming dreaming mind watching nothing
in nothing in nothing in particular look look
this moment nothing in particular still and sweet
fast and how sweet how still how sweet
swinging cloud river silence wind river
silence green river, silence sky river,
silence shadow river, silence sweet sweet
how this is this is look dreaming mind
river silence how fast this moment
how still this fast particular moment
shattered split open open silent open
cool open eye open surprised by nothing
by nothing but itself carving time
and itself look look how it is
how it is how it is.
—
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, awareness, bodiless, cloud, Freedom, light, Poetry, spirit on January 18, 2019| Leave a Comment »
LUMINOUS
Luminous ghosts
in translucent
birdsong mornings.
Old friends
invisible
and dancing.
We will have forgotten everything,
( memory
being the engine
of eternal
destruction).
Magnanimous
in all things,
Utterly laughing,
missing nothing.
—
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, cold, consciousness, first frost, nature, night, Poetry, season's change, small life, stars on October 28, 2018| 3 Comments »
SMALL THINGS
To die on a winter’s night
And know that your last breath
Will be eaten by a million
Cold and hungry stars.
These flakes of furred life
Curled around their small souls
Encircled by great horizons
That ever suck the warmth
From fast-beating hearts.
No hardship, though, in letting go.
In leaving the fury, in leaving
The dawn cold to other hunters
And the sharp songs in bare branches
And the sharp eyes longing to peck.
To need no need now, to rise and fly,
To become incorporeal, incorporated
In the memory of an ever-loving world,
The blanketed round and sweet murmured world.
_
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, biology, mind, Poetry, self-, symbiosis, thought on April 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
BRIGHTER THINGS
the wriggling of spirits
or the
mutterings of mitochondria
or
the pulse and heartbeat
of greater beings
upon whose breast
we sleep
or the echoes only
of winds and rivers,
a shared
but not immortal soul
journeying
the infinite spaces.
thought:
It a sign
that we are inhabited
by brighter things.
—
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, concsiousness, existence, mind, mynyddoidd cambrian mountains, Poetry, senses, thought, Winter on February 27, 2018| 1 Comment »
GHOST WORDS, HAUNTED WORDS
Do you know
What you are
When you are asleep?
Winter trees –
It is easy to see
What they are thinking.
A filigree of branches
The grey oaks
Wriggle their limbs
Between the long centuries.
Today I remembered
A dream of water
Perhaps from ten years ago.
And saying this
More some such arise,
Memories like dead poets:
Complete images in total silence.
It is easier to see the illusion
Of television
If the sound is turned down.
As if one entranced sense
Is not quite enough.
Awake whilst others sleep,
Somewhat like becoming a ghost,
I suspect –
Thoughts coming
In a different order,
And voices
From unexpected places.
What roads do thoughts take
When they have
Passed through
And left us wondering?
The fire is singing
Like an old man
Making tea,
Whistling a tune
Between his teeth.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, awareness, belonging, connection, darkness, existence, landscape photography, night, Poetry, presence, world on December 29, 2016| 2 Comments »
The Blossoming Magnitude
I step out.
Thick darkness
And above night fog.
A few stars come and go.
This world
We cannot ever leave.
Every inch of us
Reeled out from its heart.
Made to stretch
And grow and fade
Between each breath
And each stillness,
Between each moment
Of presence and absence.
The world pushes through.
Wherever we might go
This world, too, shall come.
We are seamless
And utterly loved.
A fragment only
In strange fragmented minds
That do not realise the utter silence
Contains the voices of all.
The utter silence that answers us
Is the blossoming magnitude
Of the simple ground.
A round flicker of star,
Tasted, acknowledged, named.
Never are we severed,
Never lost, nor alone,
Though the angry, hungry tide
Of voices may say it.
Our science is love
And our gravity, delight.
Obedient to our breath,
We come and go,
Remembering how it all goes.
A bowl of sky.
A bowl of earth.
Enough food there is
For all things.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, awareness, being, Cambrian Mountains, change, clouds, distance, Irvon Valley, landscape, landscape photography, light, photography, Poetry, purpose, Wales on April 23, 2016| 2 Comments »
Looking towards Carn Wen at evening.
To watch the pass
of light and dark
and how they each
shape these hills, this way and that,
is all I wish now to do.
we live, we die
as the distances reveal themselves
then vanish with the pass of a cloud.
if not to fill our time with beauty,
if not to see the world as it becomes us,
then what?
a flicker of pain, a flight upwards of joy
and the rolling of light in the valleys.
what other instruction
for a being of discernment?
what other lesson but this?
and to count the days
’til cuckoos and swallows.
and to keep to the constellations
of sheep and the openness
of lambs.
we shall end again soon enough.
peace is here
and it is sufficient for a whole universe.
and to watch the clouds pile
and drift at the setting sun.
and the smell of dew
on grass.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awareness, boundaries, contrast, Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant, identityCambrian Mountains, Irfon Valley, landscape.Wales, light and dark, mutability, Mynydd Eppynt, Poetry, spring, St. David's Day, weather on March 2, 2016| 5 Comments »
St. DAVID’S DAY
sunlight drifts lazy, slow, over hillsides
like the thoughts of man
and sleepy gods.
hunched low, these wild Cambrians
hide their own
merciless uplands with steep green:
ascending oaks and the downward rushing
waters that name the valleys.
there is there.
a studded look of clouded rock horizon,
a descant of filtered light.
turn round, though,
and you will see
the high, dark wavered line of the Epynt,
shrouded, begrudging light.
a mystery of mysteries in smoke-wet valleys.
and here now,
the ravens flying from one to the other,
from glowering dark to shining light,
swimming across sheep-sprinkled valleys
all green even now at the end of winter.
the farms all gathered for lambing
and the cherry plum awakening
with the snowdrops and daffodils
and all.
St. David’s Day it is.
he who is a saint of the edges,
a decentralised saint,
a saint of hills and horizons
and sweet, cold waters
and the birth of Spring.
look here: a bright benign unfolding.
look there: a towering roar of grey-blue cloud,
toothed and grating the hidden darkened slopes.
a march between contrasts
a choice of choices
that become nothing
but a roll of change as it changes with the wind,
cold then wet, a speaking of days,
a laughter of uncaring bliss
and an end to certain righteousness.
so this cold wind has March on its edge,
a kiss of rain and mist and a hope of sunlit moments.
this world is a landscape
made of whispers.
the proud man is his own fool
who cannot see.
the humble know they breathe
the breath of others,
the echoing chambers, the sighs and footsteps.
this world, hung upon the cross as our deliverer,
and we, hung upon the cross of its directions.
one given to the other, mutually mixing,
a melting of forms and of thought,
A landscape made only
of whisperings.
—
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, awareness, definition, landscape, language, metaphysics, mind, night, objective -subjective, peace, Philosophy, photography, separate-entangled, silence, sky gazing on January 5, 2016| 7 Comments »
THE ART OF SILENCE
folded breath
a volume of murmurs
that is all
an understanding
discarding options
so as to mimic peace
to sleep, dream or wake.
to turn away from friction –
a wishful free flow
to harmonise, to disappear.
the River of Milk,
our mother’s beneficence
for this dream
the old man, the prince,
the returning journeyman,
rise quietly in the night
to gaze at the moon
—
simonhlilly 