At dVerse Merril is hosting Haibun Monday with an invitation to look up, and write about the experience.
dVerse Poets – Haibun – Look Up
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” Maya Angelou
The Whole View My experiences of looking up are experiences of momentarily leaving myself, placing myself in the cosmos, letting go any singular rootedness and finding community with all things and all beings, animate and inanimate, rocks and trees, mountains, the sky and all it holds. I don't feel diminished by the bigness of it all, I feel included, and I feel moved to include all things. In that sense of acceptance comes a deep sense of harmony and belonging for me. To look at the grandeur of a tree and trace its linear circuitry, to reach out to the sky and know its infinity, to view the mountain and feel its strength and presence, are deeply moving for me. Looking up at this mountain reminds I am not the centre of life, not even my own, I am simply a part of the whole that seeks life together. To look up at this mountain is a reminder that I have no control over it and no need to do so. The call of this mountain is to take pleasure in its gift of diverse experiences that enable me to know a little more about life and who I am and a lot of letting go and not knowing. Looking up the mount I saw the heavens opened jasmine tea goes cold Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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I love your haibun. I wrote a haiku along similar lines last weekend when we took a drive to the Green Mountains.
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Have you put it up? Amazing how the creative juice works.
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No, I haven’t. I’ve have big plans for a book of haiku photopoetry. *facepalm*
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Aha, facepalm meaning no progress yet?
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Facepalm meaning too projects, too many ideas–and I want to do them all at once before time’s winged chariot overtakes me.
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Aha, we could well be twins.
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This is a wonderful haibun in that it’s not anthropocentric, but celebrates nature and the cosmos and us being a tiny part of it all. Beautiful.
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Thank you so much Nitin, especially for recognising the intention, much appreciated.
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I love this Paul. That is how I feel, too, not diminished, but a part of it. Beautifully written–and the haiku is perfect!
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Thank you very much for this Merril, thrilled that it connected so.
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You’re very welcome, Paul.
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Well said, Paul. Love to be a tiny part of of the whole…
Thank you for the quote!
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Many thanks Amy and my pleasure.
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That tea is so much better cold!
Wonderful haiku moment.
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It really was, and thank you for the delighting response.
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You inspired me to write one along the same line. Thanks, Paul
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Well that really is wonderful, thank you Tom, and best wishes as you toil.
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Reads like a prayer of gratitude, Paul. You have been gifted and you know it. I’m sure “the source” smiles because one of us paltry humans gets it. The mountains and trees have known it for a long time but humans are a little slow…
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There’s so much in nature that just wows me and calls, you know it too 🙂 yes, we are slow indeed. Thank you very much Lisa.
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My pleasure, Paul ❤
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What an absolute delight to read Paul!
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Wow, thank you so much Carol.
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Behold! The interconnected web of life!
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Yes indeed, and so precious, thank you Ruth 🙂
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❤️🦋🧚
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Beautifully spiritual poem -love the connectedness expressed in this
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I was very moved to write this, from the depths so to speak.
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