One spring
morning my dreams come true
The sun hid and sought, Breeze was gutsy
n cool
Birds chirped, Hopped with
cheer
And flew low, About children gaming
in the street below
Playing... as if extending
the overnight score.
I savour
the turn rare, Of oneness strange
Conspicuous,
scarce, In that gray
light
And blessed morning
air…
Watching, I felt, I was the ball
The palm on it,
the lad, And the woman across
With clothes on
line, And the house eyeing
sharp
The peers in
time, And even the
fields
In the distance, Waving back with
smile
All swaying, all
formed, Of the tune same
Without art,Neat, emerged
and so stark
Palpable… one, Suffused within
Without another, Spread in me.
I stood startled, Without my wits
Just a heart
swelled, Next to the one beating…
To gather myself, I sank in a
chair
Recalled my name, The identity in
pair
And withdraw
safe, From overwhelming
surfeit.
For a while next, I curl up in bed
Chewing the feel, Of throwing
myself
On the rocks
below, Down the gorge deep
Where the river
roared, In gurgling
abyss…
* * *
It occurred in a
flash, When I raised
myself
That I was cured
forever, Of little
consciousness
Which caused the
heat, Woke the fevers in
me…
I glide out to a
walk, Bouncing on steps
Side step the
cock, And catch the path
By the tail on its
hind, To wherever it
led
Feet rise and
fall, And I am lovely lost
In the wilderness
around, When the bend up
high
Appears against
the sky, Shows an old man
squat
On a stone
slightly warmed, Of the sun’s
tilted rays
Adding to the
grey/ In the spectacled
face
Radiating naïve
charm...
He lit up in
greeting, Puffing on the
stick
Eying the
hilltops yonder, Waving hairs in the
breeze
In quiet
spiritual union, With being
converged
In the cool gray
and sun, Letting life be
merged
Sensing the
space inner, Poised valley in
space
For a moment too
long, In communion, I
wait…
Until he gave a
heave, And stood up to
leave
For the climb
onward, On slow bounds
steady
With a drive
just right, Grace ample,
fluid…
We talk some but
just, And note our
transparence
Sights pure ‘thout
thought, Feel the beauty
and joy
In mind open,
accessed...
Being one, the
same, Involved luminous
In forms different, And each recess
The same, the same, In all creatures
In every thing, With diverse
features.
* *
*
I did then allow
in. The banished hopes
The desperations
true, Their real
impress…
Let the body lead, Unbound the mind
free
Empowered fullness
complete, In health, light
and spree.
* *
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