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By Aid of Telescope: a kenning poem
Reach out with your eye-spear; the evidence is plain. Out on the great wide sea road we will all meet again. Each underneath the canopy that makes up the star carpet, despite the distances between us we will once again … Continue reading
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Tagged allusion, connection, daily poems, journeys, kenning, NaPoWriMo, travels
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Journey’s End
Every journey starts out simply, with a single thought: where am I, where have I been, and is it where I ought to imagine is my place, my center in this life, or is there more to me than this, … Continue reading
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Tagged confusion, decisions, destinations, destiny, illusion, journeys, NaPoWriMo, travel
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On Destinations
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. – Henry Miller, US author (1891-1980) Share This:
Preparation for the journey
What is required of me, that you will listen and subsequently think on what I’ve said? No matter how inane a task, my mission will be to fulfill that desire, instead of simply guessing what you like to read then … Continue reading
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Tagged companionship, conversations, destinations, journeys, spirituality, travel
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The Seeker’s Lament
For forty years I’ve sought some kind of truth and come up empty-handed, more or less. What dreams I held like treasures in my youth have lost their gleam; my hands, their tenderness. The journey has not gone as I … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, emptiness, enlightenment, failure, journeys, seeking, struggles
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Questioning
The exercise this week relates to the poetic foot the dactyl, which is basically a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. A typical waltz pattern, you could say. Here’s the example I used, with successive stanzas in dactylic monometer, … Continue reading
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Tagged choices, dactyl, decisions, exercises, journeys, poetic forms, questions
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A Pathless Land
I have not found the answers seeking truth, nor even formed the questions halfway right; the mysteries that tempted me in youth are still in shrouded mists hidden from sight. The path under my feet begins and ends a single … Continue reading
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Tagged discovery, individuality, isolation, Jiddu Krishnamurti, journeys, truth
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