Let all the words go. They come from elsewhere and long ago, are immigrants here. They should return to their faraway homes. They should fly up to city balconies and preen there, or land like a big shadow on the cornfield, and pick among the stalks. –Chase Twitchell (The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist […]
Words Fly In
Writing spontaneously is opening a window, letting the words fly in. This implies words are alive . . . autonomous. They can fly. Right now, they are waiting quietly outside your window . . . waiting for the window to open . . . waiting for you to open. Tat, Tat, Tat The words become […]
Create Beauty
“For [Navajo Indians] beauty is central. A person is not rich for the money he has, but for the number of songs he knows. The artist is not an eccentric living on the edge of society, but is the norm. . . . For the Navajo the creation of beauty and the embodiment of oneself […]
Breath of Fire
Bardo of Writing It can be said poets talked too much wrote too long, listening to the sound of their voices. This was my offering to have written little, & heard the sounds of the world. –Janet Rodney (The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling, p.262) A Misty Paradox […]
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