The Chinese
Peaks
For Donald Hall
I love the mountain
peak
but I know also its rolling
foothills
half-invisible
in mist and fog.
but I know also its rolling
foothills
half-invisible
in mist and fog.
The Seafarer gets up
long before dawn to read.
His soul
is a whale feeding
on the Holy Word.
long before dawn to read.
His soul
is a whale feeding
on the Holy Word.
The soul who loves the
peak
also inhales the deep
breath rising
from the mountain
buried in mist.
also inhales the deep
breath rising
from the mountain
buried in mist.
~ Robert Bly
~
(Meditations on the Insatiable
Soul)
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