poetry – What’s here now?

I stroll along the stream up to where it ends.

I sit down watching the clouds as they begin to rise.
Wang Wei

What is
before words
Sensations
before expression
Being
before description
This
without time
Life raw
before suffering
hope and fear

I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.

— John Cage

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

— Mary Oliver, The Selected Poems

Came across this on a building beside a river this afternoon.

The silence of intuited unicity is always on

It cannot and need not be contrived

or arrived at or made anew

It is either recognized or not

Nancy Neithercut

Control

As if

If you must hold on,

hold lightly

And when it’s time,

let go

Currently reading Ryokan’s One Robe, One Bowl.

Jayasara reads these ‘wisdom texts’ so beautifully.