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Many thanks, Doug. Hal On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote: > What I like about the way you write these things, Hal, is the > slippage between various forms of discourse, as in the last 3 > couplets, for example. > > This whole piece works wonders.... > > Doug > On 2-Feb-06, at 2:12 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > >> Guru >> >> L’Ang Po often spoke about carrying, about picking >> things up and putting them down. >> >> Each of them talking, as part of the ceremony, >> far beyond form and emptiness. >> >> The seasons changed, the war intensified. Ice-caps >> were melting too quickly. >> >> In Mexico together, we all sat down to sew, >> to stitch our names in the fabric of time. >> >> Liberation, freely given to all concerned, just >> something to pull about our shoulders. >> >> Example and precept. Precept and example. >> Not a ruse, but an affirmation. >> >> Far afield, we have chanted the Moon’s name, >> held in abeyance by long-time donors. >> >> Silent voices—alive and well, after all >> is said and done. >> >> >> >> Hal >> >> Halvard Johnson >> ================ >> [log in to unmask] >> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard >> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org >> >> > Douglas Barbour > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > > No farther out > than in – > no nearer here > than there. > > Robert Creeley "What does a poet need an unlisted number for?" --George Costanza Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org