By walking, we make the path...or by wanting...it leads us or we lead it!! :) Thank you, Huzaifa! This reminds me of the series of Kabir interpretations you did long ago!
Catherine, how lovely to see you here on Substack!!!! Am drawn by what you say about knowing without certainty being faith! Thank you for the kind words and I too hope things go well for us all.
This is a poem I felt myself fall into, Rajani. I love the way it hooks with the opening question, the gentle pace, the repetition of ‘word’, that makes me ‘want other words’. I especially love the lines:
Damn! That ending.
I didn't want it to end so soon, but when it did... Seemed perfect.
Thanks so much, Amit. Yeah I felt that ending worked both ways, depending on how it was read.
I love how this end, Rajani!
Thanks so much, Nazish. 🙏
I really like this line, Rajani: "The sum of all that potential is not want."
Beautiful poem and thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much for reading, Neil. Am glad that line resonated!
as buddha prefigures
the necessary vagueness
that is to be darwish
exile awaits both
not wanting either
By walking, we make the path...or by wanting...it leads us or we lead it!! :) Thank you, Huzaifa! This reminds me of the series of Kabir interpretations you did long ago!
Ah yes, Kabir. Indeed the trajectory from Buddha to Kabir is a natural one. Introducing Darwish contemporizes that trajectory. Thanks.
This is really really beautiful,
Rajani. To be, to just exist and be okay with it. Love how you end it.
This is really really beautiful,
Rajani. To be, to just exist and be okay with it. Love how you end it.
Thanks so much, Sonia! Glad you liked it!
Knowing without certainty...sparkles in its clarity of faith to sit or wander and just be. All will be well, all manner of things will be well.
Catherine, how lovely to see you here on Substack!!!! Am drawn by what you say about knowing without certainty being faith! Thank you for the kind words and I too hope things go well for us all.
I would love to hear what Derrida had to say about this poem, Rajani, but no matter, deeply felt.
Well, I would love to hear it too! Isn't poetry all about the dance of words and emotions!! Thanks for reading, Mahdi!!! :)
Absolutely loved it! Just being without wanting to be - beautiful thought.
Thanks so much, Madhuri..
This is beautiful, Rajani.
This is a poem I felt myself fall into, Rajani. I love the way it hooks with the opening question, the gentle pace, the repetition of ‘word’, that makes me ‘want other words’. I especially love the lines:
‘Words want to be heard’
and
‘Take a plant primed to flower.
Not wanting rain.
Just holding the possibility of the flower.
Not waiting. Just being under the sky.’
And what a beautiful ending!
Thanks so much, Kim. Love when I see the old WP crowd here. And thanks for picking those lines!
Oh wow, beautiful!
Thanks so much, Siodhna. Glad you liked this one!
The essence of Zen, but more human and encompassing.
Thanks so much, K. 🙏
Wow, this is exquisitely beautiful, Rajani. Just gorgeous writing.
Thanks so much, Sherry 🙏🙏
"It doesn’t need a wrapper to be itself."
Thank you!! We need more of that, right! :)
Yes!
Lovely.
Thanks so much, Rebecca.