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FROM YU XUANJI
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There is a spunky lady.
Her name is Crazy Wisdom. She can travel through all the world on a wild, bone-white horse. She can fly beyond stars by thought, or into the core of a tree, and enter the house of God anywhere. Ah, sunflowers bloom everywhere! and here are the little pale blossoms of the moon. Look, a round, white cottage. God the gardener lives here... Roses hang from under its eaves; carnations and the lotus intertwine. In the arbor, amidst sweet grapes, there is a barrel of good wine. Hot bread and rice are in one basket on a table that's bountifully spread. The silence is startling! * A little path leads through the garden into ancient forest's darkened groves. The grass here is glassy and luminous. Deer nuzzle your arms; birds land in your hair; you scratch the back of a black bear. Under an apple tree is a pile of small books. I take one, and sitting on a rock next to a tinkling stream sing its poems and sail in a little green and yellow boat upon the lake of God's dreams. The wind carries me here and there to villages, and flowered fields, to hermitages and exotic cities, to desolate deserts in oceans of Light. Everywhere I arrive is home. |
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Poem © Blake Steele 1997
Image © Blake Steele 2010 |
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