i)
coffee steam
circles up
drifting through
hemlock
aspen
maple
ii)
coffee cups
washed and stacked away
ready for tomorrow morn
iii)
monk ponders today's duties
flips through Proverbs
reading
praying
meditating
iv)
rake, mower, broom and brushes
soon...
hockey equipment needs sorting
put away the mower and let's go walking instead. quiet steps, as quietly as we can :)
ReplyDeleteNice summer snapshots!
ReplyDelete"Here is the time for the Tellable, here is its home.
ReplyDeleteSpeak and proclaim. More than ever
things we can live with are falling away, for that
which is oustingly taking their place is an imageless act...
Praise this world to the Angel, not the untellable: you
can't impress him with the splendour you've felt; in the cosmos
where he more feelingly feels you're only a novice. So show him
some simple thing, refashioned by age after age,
till it lives in our hands and eyes as a part of ourselves.
Tell him things. He'll stand more astonished: as you did
beside the roper in Rome or the potter in Egypt.
Show him how happy a thing can be, how guileless and ours;
how even the moaning of grief purely determines on form,
serves as a thing, or dies into a thing, - to escape
to a bliss beyond the fiddle. These things that live on departure
understand when you praise them: fleeting, they look for
rescue through something in us, the most fleeting of all."
coffee steam, coffee cup, the book,
rake, mower, broom and brushes,
soon the hockey equipment)))
xo
erin
I always enjoy your morning coffee musings, Ollie, and remember a poem you wrote in winter about laying the cups out ready for morning. Coffee meditations, in all seasons........and soon it will be fall.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed these, Ollie. I'm taking a break from the poetry for now, but would love if you'd check me out here: http://rustikat.blogspot.com or here: http://thriftkat.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteBe well!
Kat
Confession time..
ReplyDelete[do monks take confession? :-)]
I use my mug many times over.
Always the same taste anyways.
Do monks play hockey?
Teach?
Interesting meditations over coffee cups....
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ReplyDeleteSome good meditations over a cup of coffee :)
ReplyDeleteOh, I like this a reading meditation...
ReplyDeleteI see the walk of your day...in these lines~
I like the flow of thought :D
soak it up, then spend it.
ReplyDeleteSounds so peaceful, I've usually done ten things by the time my first cup is done, but that's the restaurant biz. Greatly enjoyed reading this morning.
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