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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Enlightenment [1]

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Date: 2023-12-08  

Today is Bodhi Day, when Buddhists celebrate the enlightenment that came to Siddhartha sitting under the bodhi tree. Lighting candles and decorating trees are some of the ways it is observed. Here are a few poems about spirit.

The Props assist the House

Until the House is built



And then the Props withdraw

And adequate, erect,

The House support itself



And cease to recollect

The Auger and the Carpenter—

Just such a retrospect

Hath the perfected Life—



A past of Plank and Nail

And slowness—then the Scaffolds drop

Affirming it a Soul.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,

Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers

In tea leaves or palms.

Be patient with whatever comes.

This could be our last winter, it could be many

More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:



Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines

And forget about hope. Time goes running, even

As we talk. Take the present, the future’s no one’s affair.

Horace (65 BCE - 8 BCE)

The great sea

frees me, moves me,

as a strong river carries a weed.



Earth and her strong winds

move me, take me away,

and my soul is swept up in joy.



Uvavnuk (Iglulik Eskimo, 19th century)

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