#poems of devotion

[nomadman108]

Meeting Old Neighbours

Yesterday I went a little further afield than usual on my (theoretically) regular walk. We have two lakes within walking distance to the hermitage, and it was to one of these I ventured yesterday. I say further afield because I did in fact end up walking further than I’d planned.. The lake is called Budgewoi, and is really more a huge lagoon and part of a system called Tuggerah Lakes. I walked…

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Behind the Solar Plexus

This is the dimension where emotion lives, a universe alone, wrapped in strands of vibrating strings, singing to me.  And though you might be four thousand light years away,  on a green planet, watching wave upon wave of gray ocean groping an empty beach, I’d still feel you pulling at me, knots of fingers under my skin, because distance is an idea coiled within me, a result of how I scarred you and you scarred me: I can think of it, and I can forgive it. I sit in my autumn-cold room and hear the humming  of our ghosts, pastel voices and images passing through this blue present.  My stillness is a breath I take in between sighs of resignation, it is how I find a rhythm to move me where yours once did, and when I am fifty-three, when you are fifty-three, I’ll still feel you pulling at me,  because time is a simple idea coiled within me, and you are vibrating strings, singing to me.  /Tidal Heart

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The Balm With Which Your Hands Cover My Feet at the End of My Two Thousand Mile Journey

The white sun turns in a pale sky white white on my naked face and I alone alone in rolling dunes of sand, rolling sand, boiling sand pushing into my shoes, between my toes with each step; space and time have fled, I drown in the view of a numb horizon and  the brown crest of a wave that lies to me.  What is progress? Feet sink, the cruel, nude earth rises around my soles--forward  is an illusion.                               This is an inhuman  feat: I walk two thousand miles through a naked desert, only one hundred stops along the way at mysterious oases that rise in vapor like tigers from tall grass;  for one thousand miles I have no shoes, they’ve dissolved, the soles melted through; out loud I recite poetry in French, and after six hundred miles silence overcomes language; sand, white sun, burning body in heat, I only know the image of you. On the other side of the desert, I walk and walk and the only thing that stops me are your arms that catch me and hold onto me as I fall.  /Tidal Heart