Hey there everyone. Glad to have y’all checking in here. More and more suicides, more and more lemming selves following each other off the cliff into the vast ocean.
So, the first one comes from my favorite Rilke collection
The poem is called The Panther
In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly–. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
Wow, I love that one. I used to give it out to my massage clients before working with them. It gets deeper and more profound for me over the years.
The next poem I first heard recited at an awesome Winter Solstice event in Olympia, Washington, last year. How moving, beautiful, startling and powerful…I felt knocked to my knees by the power of Ocean’s presentation. A wild and free soul, that man.
Become The One
become the one.
beseech none, for salvation is no others’ to bequeath.
grow radiant on your own transcendent midnights;
the gods are your enemies.
there is one gift and it is the gift of attention
do not hesitate.
hone your focus, and just as a narrowing tunnel forces water, with one
exponential heave refuse subsumption.
do not worship; warship.
be like the image-stealer who loathes nothing more than the shamefaced
gaze of his subjects.
may the creator dissolve all that is small within him in the grandeur of his
creating, his accomplishments smother their inspiration
become the one
diamond,
supreme;
god’s god.
Ok, there you have them. Ask me if you want to obtain copies of Ocean’s book, Black Hills Cabal and I will try to find one for you.
Check in in a couple hours to discover a musical surprise for your…..
Love, wildness, joy!
-GTD
