the flying birds have left
no footprints on the blue sky
~ Miso Soseki
translated by W.S. Merwin
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2014/12/from-beginning.html
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http://plantingground.tumblr.com/post/102789628125
Take from me all earthly raiment and place me deep in my
Mother Earth; and place me with care upon my mother's breast.
Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed
With seeds of jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they
Grow above me, and thrive on my body's element they will
Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space;
And reveal even to the sun the secret of my peace;
And sail with the breeze and comfort the wayfarer.
When I am not present to myself, then I am only aware of that half of me,
that mode of my being which turns outward to created things.
And then it is possible for me to lose myself among them.
Then I no longer feel the deep secret pull of the gravitation of love
which draws my inward self toward God.
My senses, my imagination, my emotions, scatter
to pursue their various quarries all over the face of the earth.
Recollection brings them home.
It brings the outward self into line with the inward spirit,
and makes my whole being answer the deep pull of love
that reaches down into the mystery of God.
~ Thomas Merton
from No Man is an Island
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-deep-pull-of-love.html
As the silence walks in the deserted valley;
Leave me to God and disperse yourselves slowly, as the almond
And apple blossoms disperse under the vibration of Nisan's breeze.
Go back to the joy of your dwellings and you will find there
That which Death cannot remove from you and me.
Leave with place, for what you see here is far away in meaning
From the earthly world. Leave me.
–Kahlil Gibran
Excerpt from:
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-beauty-of-death.html
- Arif K
but this touch, where I Disappear.”
Arif K.
http://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/index.html