“If you do something in the spirit of non-achievement, there is a good quality in it. So just to do something without any particular effort is enough.”
Shunryu Suzuki
To make something of these times I
must make something so I will find
a frame in which to nail my thoughts.
I cannot beat this lone silence
and I cannot take this seedless
greening anymore, this yearning
growth that knows only down and in,
only dragging my thoughts into
the night where I cannot find them
though I remember having them,
remember how they felt if not
how they looked, remember them close
and warm, and thought them somehow grand
or at least telling at the time
I barely had them, but now? Now
I barely have them even less.
Now I am not sure if I have
them or if they have me. Now they
are lost in their own depths, swimming
silently in the rolling black
medium of their making. Now
they haunt me in their bare being
and unmake me and swim through me
and I will make nothing of them.
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Wow–just great.
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so, my thoughts, (and obviously your thoughts, it would seem) are not necessarily related to each other: there is thought and there is “I” in all of its multifariousnicity, and never the twain shall meet except in the words we weave
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while we watch them wave, “bye-bye”….
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Well, maybe skip the frame and nails, and, like you said, make nothing of them, which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still write. 😉 And photograph – I love the image! Your photography has such life and energy. And the quote, naturally, a classic.
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Bless you, dear.
The frame and nails in this instance would be form. as in meter. I have found that putting things in meter is a good way of tricking my mind into telling me what I need to hear when “free verse” is just a little too free….
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