oregonnerd: differing views

answer (2)

January 17, 2017 at 5:09 pm Leave a comment

answer (2)

you awaited answer so long
that quite assuredly you no longer expected it:
indeed, you’d forgotten the question

when a quiet voice spoke,
a small voice, perhaps
interior, saying, “not the thing but its meaning;

the word’s inflection, not
the word:  uncurved lines
are the mind’s product.
there is no certain course

nor goal.  between
birth and death is only a moment.  look.  be.”  but,
no longer
quite recalling your query,

you merely pause for a moment, startled, and then
return
to your housework and vague musings

on the absence of joy, and dreams.

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I began studying something on a ship voyage to Japan.  My adopted mother couldn’t bear traveling by plane.  It’s the sort of study that you finish by entirely missing the way or dying.

Entry filed under: history, modal philosophy, On Truth, philosophy, poetry, zen. Tags: about reality, poetry from voices.