Monday, August 20, 2012

just summer

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





12 comments:

  1. put away the mower and let's go walking instead. quiet steps, as quietly as we can :)

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  2. "Here is the time for the Tellable, here is its home.
    Speak 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

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  3. 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.

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  4. Really 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

    Be well!

    Kat

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  5. Confession time..
    [do monks take confession? :-)]
    I use my mug many times over.
    Always the same taste anyways.
    Do monks play hockey?
    Teach?

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  6. Interesting meditations over coffee cups....

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  8. Some good meditations over a cup of coffee :)

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  9. Oh, I like this a reading meditation...
    I see the walk of your day...in these lines~
    I like the flow of thought :D

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  10. Sounds 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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