November meanings ~ For Edwin

peeling red potatoes on a Tuesday afternoon,
I think of the split pea soup you cooked the other day
and the ten deer in your back yard
fearless of your presence,
the years are kind,
you split logs for the hearthside and I yearned
to soothe your muscles, aching the dull ache
of Viet Nam, your military green and your policeman's
black and white,
you live where wild berries grow, and wild geese darken the
November sky,
I ask you to dream with me,
the persistence
of memory, but you speak of Hawkin's calibrations--
numbers with meaning that have no meaning to me
and I notice
I have no carrots for my soup.

— Kailashana, Nov 11, 2009

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lyz

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Kailashana

This is a sad read, to me anyway. I love the description you so vividly wrote. This is a grand homage for this Vet. I am glad to know he got through it. Well done. Love Lyz. XX

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Mom

I can see you at the sink pealing the tato's as we call em ... and drifing ... And a wonderful tribute to your friend and I am glad you hear he got through in one piece ... so many didnt my uncle was one of them the whole family suffered love and hugs Jayne x x

Kailashana

16 years 7 months ago

This is one of those moments

This is one of those moments that I am too full to speak, so I remain silent. Love & Hugs Lyz and Jayne, ~Ma "...when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." ~ Buddha

Nordic cloud

16 years 7 months ago

Staying hauntingly in the mind after being read,

Oh lovely little glimpse haïku-like in its simplicity and staying hauntingly in the mind after being read, you can do that my Anna sister, just here, as if we looked in through a window by chance and overheard a conversation, then hearing that there was no harm in it carried on, but not without feeling good and thankful for the everydayness of life. My dear sister you do you transfix us, Ann.

Kailashana

16 years 6 months ago

Isn’t life lived in the

Isn't life lived in the everydayness, Ann--while we search for something else? Isn't that where poetry, art comes from? Our connection and disconnection, our yearning for something else? Love, You American Sister "...when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." ~ Buddha

Nordic cloud

16 years 6 months ago

Everyday notes of the mind

Yes you are right and that yearning is the birth of words that flow steered by the yearning, seemingly from somewhere unknown and unintelligible and yet it is from within us, its naissance is given impetus and its essences colour the experience and when expressed it glows back like an unknown wonder of creation, there gathered are the everyday notes of the mind in its continuous momentum in time with the beating of the heart...what a wonderful dance is life. Dear sister of the American Eagle's soil, that grand melange of human beings that United States, what a wonderful concept! My love to you, Ann.

RobertKnott

16 years 6 months ago

Nice...

i had a brother-in-law whom that war withered away. he was a kind, gentle man of the peace loving type at that time known as hippies. he was drafted and did his duty. but horror can sink desperate talons.

Kailashana

16 years 6 months ago

Dear Robert, thank you for

Dear Robert, thank you for reading... and that has been one of the questions of complexity in my life. How the same, shared universal experience of life destroys others while others are strengthened. Last week I happened to watch Oprah. The woman who was mauled by her friend's chimpanzee showed her face for the first time. No eyes, a huge bulbous nose and a "reconstructed chin & mouth". She was imo opinion much like watching Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in the movie "The Elephant Man". The soul shines through. We hold our sensitivities. Life is replete with these stories too. The spirit she has puts me to shame! I would have opted for death, or would have caused it, somehow, I think. Why do some abused never abuse, some who have lived through life's horrors become even kinder while others are broken in spirit or become even the worse abuser? It is what it is, isn't it? Compassion is always the answer. ~A "...when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." ~ Buddha

RobertKnott

16 years 6 months ago

:)

Anna, like i said, she didn't even see her own beauty. please read- Woman Asleep. -Eden sips through an endless glass with Eyes of Gold-

seabhac

16 years 6 months ago

As always in your gently way

As always in your gently way you touch pure thought. Seabhac