Poetry Month

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

April is Poetry Month! Yay!

So in my bullet journal, the monthly spread reflects that theme.



My first poem is a poem that I will read on Wednesday to my meditation group. It's my turn to lead the group this Wednesday and I like sometimes to read my own verse to close the session. The poem (English sonnet) reflects one of the images our guru uses to illustrate what the meditator should strive for during meditation. It's also for the prompt #26 'enlightened' at emotion100

enlightened by okapi

Observe as oil is poured from flask to flask
in unbroken, uninterrupted stream
Watch the flow, without gap, from cask to cask
un-diverted, unhindered, without seam

Remember years of training, lifetimes spent
in pouring drops and drips, ego as child,
when thoughts weren’t ever thought but rather spent.
they splattered like grease, purposeless and wild.

Know the strain to unify will, to still
the mind, with grace, to jettison the dross
to pour with steady hand, not shake or spill
to meditate, without pause or loss

Not prophet, saint, or god, only awake,
the enlightened one’s oil flows without break

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Good luck with all your poetry this month. I like your bullet journal spread (especially the cows!)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Ah, the cows are a card from our mutual friend!

[dr_zook]

I really, really like this poem. It's very touching. I hope your meditation group appreciated it properly! ♥

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, thank you! I read it tonight and they enjoyed it.