The Zen of Personal Space
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Sometimes we get lost in a scary, all but surreal landscape of conflicting emotions through which we cannot see our way clear to any safe haven.
At such times, we need to call upon the inner self to step back from it all, create our own space, set mind, body and spirit free of temporal concerns just long enough to at least draw us a map that will guide us back into the real world..
We all need to take care that certain socio-cultural-religious obligations don't make such demands on us that mind-body-spirit is left screaming, "Please. just let me BE!" while other things (and people) that matter to us simply pass us by...
THE ZEN OF PERSONAL SPACE
Looking for a shortcut to nowhere,
found a pretty little road
that turned out to be nothing more
than a dead end at a ring of dark water,
no way round
Tossing stones in a ring of dark water,
nothing much else to do
but watch ever-widening circles
pass out of sight like poetic shadows
in a weepy, leafy, light
Among poetic shadows in a leafy light,
a face darting in and out
like the Cheshire Cat in a classic take
on escapism from the chaos of our reality
into sheer pandemonium
No escape, only ever-widening circles
across a ring of dark water,
subject to the swing of a human arm,
measure of a human eye, raging of a beast
left impotent by despair
Surely, plaintive cries growing weaker
like ripples on a ring of dark water
chasing The Cat into the same nowhere
that’s begging a shortcut, brief respite
for mind-body-spirit
Past-present-future engaging the senses
to suss the integrity of imagination,
let ripples in a leafy light lent us by whim
or other of nature 's moods suggest a way yet
to cross a ring of dark water
Copyright R. N. Taber 2013 [Rev. + Alt title 2/19]
Sometimes we get lost in a scary, all but surreal landscape of conflicting emotions through which we cannot see our way clear to any safe haven.
At such times, we need to call upon the inner self to step back from it all, create our own space, set mind, body and spirit free of temporal concerns just long enough to at least draw us a map that will guide us back into the real world..
We all need to take care that certain socio-cultural-religious obligations don't make such demands on us that mind-body-spirit is left screaming, "Please. just let me BE!" while other things (and people) that matter to us simply pass us by...
THE ZEN OF PERSONAL SPACE
Looking for a shortcut to nowhere,
found a pretty little road
that turned out to be nothing more
than a dead end at a ring of dark water,
no way round
Tossing stones in a ring of dark water,
nothing much else to do
but watch ever-widening circles
pass out of sight like poetic shadows
in a weepy, leafy, light
Among poetic shadows in a leafy light,
a face darting in and out
like the Cheshire Cat in a classic take
on escapism from the chaos of our reality
into sheer pandemonium
No escape, only ever-widening circles
across a ring of dark water,
subject to the swing of a human arm,
measure of a human eye, raging of a beast
left impotent by despair
Surely, plaintive cries growing weaker
like ripples on a ring of dark water
chasing The Cat into the same nowhere
that’s begging a shortcut, brief respite
for mind-body-spirit
Past-present-future engaging the senses
to suss the integrity of imagination,
let ripples in a leafy light lent us by whim
or other of nature 's moods suggest a way yet
to cross a ring of dark water
Copyright R. N. Taber 2013 [Rev. + Alt title 2/19]
Labels: escapism, human nature, human spirit, imagination, inspiration, life, meditation, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, sanctuary, self-awareness, spirituality, time, zen
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