SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension–though affected, certainly, by our actions. A world parallel to our own though overlapping. We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to [...]
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“Into our own sphere…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“An awe so quiet…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Writing on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, ice. Cold. A storm en route. Or so they say. I walk 218, navigating ice flows. The wind bites. THE WOMB OF STARS The womb of stars embraces us; remnants of their fiery furnaces pulse through our veins. We are of the stars, the dust of the explosions cast across space. We are of [...]
“That witnessing presence…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WITNESS Sometimes the mountain is hidden from me in veils of cloud, sometimes I am hidden from the mountain in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue, when I forget or refuse to go down to the shore or a few yards up the road, on a clear day, to reconfirm that witnessing presence. – DENISE LEVERTOV [...]
“Breathing to sustain…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My day starts early and I spend it crisscrossing Orange County…morning meeting in Montgomery; afternoon at the hospital; cell phone ringing; client calls in between. In my rush to get out the door, I forget my camera. The light is soft–there’s moisture hanging in the early morning air. Autumn colors muted…I frame imaginary photos in [...]
“I heard my whole self…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
- VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE – (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1) A certain day became a presence to me; there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light: a being. And before it started to descend from the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my [...]
“Intricate and untraceable…”
Posted in Denise Levertov, Inspiration, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
WEB Intricate and untraceable Weaving and interweaving Dark stand with light Designed, beyond All spiderly contrivance To link, not to entrap Elation, grief, joy, contrition, Entwined, Shaking, changing, forever Forming, transforming: All praise, all praise to the great web. – DENISE LEVERTOV -
