“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
prose
on steroids
the waterboatmen that float on cold coffee lakes
in the bone white flooded caverns
behind the back of my mind
scattered dead on a page
...a thought
perched at the end of a high-diving board,
trembling before the expanse
of water below, trembling
or thirsty for it, savouring
in advance the waterless air
through which it will glide
on its way
to some other element.
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Please feel free to add your own definitions
....a bargain
snapped up by a shopper
in the marketplace
weighed, priced, bagged
placed in a basket
next to the bread
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
....a way for mortal man
To speak with the gods.
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk
My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!
A snazzy way of putting down words
on paper
without having to go all the way across to the end of the right-hand margin
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A clipped breath
....the underside
of logic’s grim domain.
a drain
clogged by filth
that occasionally backs up
spewing forth yesterday's toasts
onto tomorrow's rose gardens.