A wonderful poem for the new year! Spending my New Years in our cabin reading, I found this passage in Eric Weiner's new book, Man Seeks God. In it he quotes Chungliang Al Huang "the wildman of tai chi."
"There's no excuse not to move...every movement has meaning; never move meaninglessly....If you want to understand the Tao, you dance it."
Happy to hear you were able to start out the new year by meaningfully moving!
You can see the internal rhymes and near-rhymes more clearly if you break the lines differently. For instance:
. . . We are no match for ourselves but our own release. Each touch uncatches some remote lock. Look, boats of mercy embark from our heart at the oddest knock.
The pairs match/uncatches, lock/knock, embark/heart all jump that way, but it detracts from the overall sense. I love her spare, skinny poems.
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"There's no excuse not to move...every movement has meaning; never move meaninglessly....If you want to understand the Tao, you dance it."
Happy to hear you were able to start out the new year by meaningfully moving!
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Glad to hear you had some quiet reading time. I'm sure it was bookended with noisy family time, so that all things are in balance, yes?
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. . . We are no match
for ourselves
but our own release.
Each touch uncatches
some remote lock.
Look, boats of mercy embark
from our heart
at the oddest knock.
The pairs match/uncatches, lock/knock, embark/heart all jump that way, but it detracts from the overall sense. I love her spare, skinny poems.
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