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 art, fragments, Haiku-ish, landscape, language, memory, mind, photography, Poetry on March 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
NOW THEN
Now then
This memory
Bright and ruthless
Still here.
One moment sparkles
One moment shatters
And the one who goes before it
And the one leaving after it
Are one but not the same.
A language of licked lips and discrepency
A bartering of meanings.
They bring here with pride
The skill of conjurors and pickpockets.
The language of rivers:
The song of things
Worn smooth by sound.
The heart of starlight
Is loneliness and beauty.
The silence of the deep.
Out of the eternal past
A poet’s voice
Leads the dead,
Revivifies the earth.
Words fall golden,
Free of meaning
Time rusts,
Becoming earth.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cwm Graig Ddu, landscape, language, mind, Mynnyddoidd .Cambrian Mountains, Otherworld.art landscape photography, Poetry, rivers of Annwfn, song, Taliesin, words on March 5, 2018| 1 Comment »
Some words make rivers to ride down seawards
Some words make rivers to cross over to another side
Some words make rivers wild and roaring falling from heaven
Some words make rivers thst are strange songs, strange and lovely
Some words make rivers that rend the earth, thst rend worlds, thst carve out new names
Some words make rivers thst are tears and memories and sorrows endless
All words flow from the same source to the same oceans in many worlds
All words live in the flow of breath and the woven web of minds
Some words and all words are born of landscapes and their passion
Born of need and born of beauty
Born of silence and born of reaching out
We are washed in words, their cool slip and drip
Drop by drop lost in words, drowned dreaming
Turned by words, stretched out and shattered by words
Made by words and cast adrift on words
Hollowed and hallowed and shriven by words
Healed and made whole by words.
Swept clean swept away swept up,
Found and lost in words
—
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 ancient bards, bardic traditions, Cambrian Mountains, dream states, landscape photography, light, meaning, memory, mind, mynyddoid cambrians, night, Poetry, space, time, Wales, words on February 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »
THE CORNERS OF SPACE
Follow the sun beyond the horizon
And there will never be a sunset,
Never a horizon.
The old poets knew this – that their voice
(River and root of it) runs through distance
And no ends are there to those meanings.
Each sound, a door to deeper dimensions.
(No owls tonight, though a slivered, smiling moon.
Between the song of the pines and the river:
Restless tumbling dreams.)
Here is the vertiginous well of the sky
And its steps, and its chambers.
The view of horizons and their echoes.
(Confusion arises with questions:
Clouds billow and change shape;
Gravity has little hold in dream states
Except by habit.)
Circumference, the vastness of mind,
The corners of space, encompassed
By a single breath,
Dissolves on exhalation.
A rainbow disease brought to a stunning collapse –
Endless blue.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ancestors, art, bardic, identification, identity, influences, inspiration, language, mind, Otherworld, photography, Poetry on January 26, 2018| 2 Comments »
THE WORDS WE COLLECT
It is the whispers in the walls,
The ghosts that breath upon our lips.
We dissolve, lost in sounds from elsewhere,
From rooms, from halls.
Left, empty enough, losing attention,
We step out of ourselves
And for a moment become monstrous,
Glorious shadows in the winds
Of strange, bright mornings.
Though none of it speaks for us:
The silent, swirling mists, nor
The resounding, thundrous deep,
Nor the wells without light,
Nor the stars without memory,
Nor the movement of seconds,
Nor anything of the vastness.
For all these are constrained
By our sound, and uttered unbeknownst
By those guilty of innocence.
Left dancing on air, breathless,
Pierced, spun to a fine point, examined,
Cast out, then disregarded.
Swimming in an ocean of shadows
It is hard to know what is of value.
I shall put my ear to the door of the earth,
And listen to the ones never dead,
A music not of our blood though equally holy.
Even its echoes dissolve flesh and name
In the round chambers, skull-domed,
Grass-topped and nibbled by sheep.
For the extraordinary rests upon the ordinary,
As sound rests upon its own silence,
The known is upon the unknown
As birds rest upon tall oaks in evening.
We live above the noise, dipped in cloud.
Hearing rumours of the dreams of others,
And building what we can out of that.
Once given a name, believing that makes us real,
Practicing a story sewn from fables.
—
Marginalia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, art, comments, Dinas, fragments, human endeavour, landscape photography, May morning, Mid Wales, mind, openness, Poetry, spring, striving on May 24, 2017| 1 Comment »
MARGINALIA
below this turbulence:
slow, vast, are the currents.
Knotted threads soften, unwind
(As morning mists
In curling, upward sun).
The ghosts we hold most dear,
Those haunted voices we always hear,
That diffuse the endless night-
They come and go
As if they owned the place,
As if they mattered more.
They are so tiring,
These endless stumblings
Proudly towards truth,
Where simple goodness would suffice.
The broken-nailed, mad eyed dreamers,
The demon-fed preachers.
For we tumble towards a close,
And that is always and only certain.
Here, is the benign patience of Spring
Come again to remind us
That warmth will split the hawthorn blossom
(And the hills already drunk and hazy on it).
Just one sunny day,
and all we dream of
is summer.
A slow dance of swallows,
lambs and birdsong,
One blue warm billowy morning in May,
enough to banish all the long months
Of winter, to open and relax,
To build a nest
As if it were forever.
—
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