mythos and heaven's scent

Astoundingly lovely. favorite lines: then, you will have pressed the fragrance of your own wilderness into the book you carry in your heart. Always, Cat

i go with Cat as those lines just superb! Beautiful poetry! much love shirley harrison

.......... sometimes there are no words for your poetry ... tonights one of them I am struggling to come up with anything intelligent ... I shall applaude instead love you JayCee x x x x (Quote~~"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. "--Charles Baudelaire)

the fragrance of your own wilderness............... I WISH TO SEE IT SPREAD SOMETIMES ACROSS MY POEMS AS I THIRST for ur comment which is a rare event

wonderful use of the mataphor of a wildflower and using it to explain the lovely phenomenon of transition from a state of inertia to awakening... warmly...raj (sublime_ocean)

Ann of Norway This reminds me of the story of Ryokan, round his tea house he had a garden full of morning glories, the people were impressed and this news reached the ears of the Emperor of Japan, who wished to visit Ryokan the enlightened Zen monk, so he arrived and entered the famous garden; but to his utter astonishment he saw no morning glories, he went through the rituals of cleansing himself and bent low, as all have to humble themselves before entering the tea house, and on lifting his eyes ,seeing the Tokonoma, there it was the ONE MORNING GLORY and on seeing it he became enlightened himself. When one sees a whole field of poppies, one doesn't see a single poppy, its only when there is one that we SEE! You have captured the same essence of SIGHT dear sister, and I love the way you did it. "you will have pressed
 the fragrance of your own wilderness 
into the book you carry in your heart." Oh what an image, you lovely person, you are. Love to you dear Anna and Barry from Ann. P.S. I'm fine, eating dry lightly toasted bread with a thin layer of butter, then a few little bits of baked potato and some raisins, no longer can I indulge in oceans of green things Bother!!! Must find out what diet I can use!! I lack salt of all things! Sorry not the place to write this!!! 'Scuse I, Ann. I'll be enlightened by starvation!

reading your work,just seems by the time I get there everyone beats me to comments I would have made.I'll try to get here sooner as I enjoy most of your writes.....scribbler

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I can't help but think that instead of "you will have pressed" it should be "will you have pressed" because when I read it the way you have it it doesn't feel right to me. I like this though, the first stanza especially. JRS