At dVerse Grace is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem in the Zen style. For more detail and examples please follow the link below.
dVerse Poets – MTB – Zen Poetry
“When the body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.” Dogen
In My Springtime I saw a road and I set out on its journey, seeking the songs of magpies, a spring soliloquy of life. In the walking the road was not a road, the journey was not a journey, there were no songs of magpies. A little further and the road was a road again, the journey was mine and I began to understand the songs of magpies. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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There was a singing contest between the Pierides and the Muses, which the Muses won and then they turned the Pierides into magpies, so they would not dare to ever be so insolent bragging that they could sing better, and they were forced to live out their lives as chattering birds.
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I guess the moral is don’t brag. But yes, not the best songbirds.
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I love this poem!! It’s perfectly symmetrical, conveying a vary satisfying feeling.
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Thank you so much Liz 🙂
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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I love how you journeyed through this and the understanding of the songs of magpies ❤
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Many thanks for this 🙂
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I love the way this piece winds through itself Paul, very captivating. Have a great holiday and see you next year my friend.
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Thank you Rob, happy holidays
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I like your journey of discovery. If you’ve found a singing magpie, I’d love to hear it 🙂 Ours have terrible voices.
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I can only say that the evening warbles of Australian Magpies are glimpses of possible harmony, most of the time it is as you say, not so great, but every spring they sing just a little differently 🙂 Thank muchly Jane.
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Your magpies are obviously more gifted in the artistic department than ours!
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Perhaps we could do a corvid arts exchange 🙂 some tuition 🙂
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Hmmm. We’d end up with birds that steal your valuables then sing about it 🙂
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Lol, kleptopies hadn’t though of that, sure made me laugh 🙂
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🙂
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This does have a zen feel as the journey is a journey within itself. There is a sense of a deeper consciousness. The song is there for the ear that hears the magic.
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Yes, for the one who hears, thank you so much for this.
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Wonderful
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Thank you so much Ana
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What a beautiful lesson in the journey of life, written so simply yet so powerfully with the imagery of songs of the magpies. Happy Holidays ! Happy New Year!
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Happy Holidays Grace – thank you so much for response too.
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We might be lost sometimes but if we keep walking the road will find us again
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Yes, I firmly believe that, have experienced something akin to that.
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I like that Bjorn, thank you
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The journey really is the thing!
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It really is Sara, thank you
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Wow that is deep and beautiful
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