Sunday, November 6, 2011

Three Journeys


Climb a mountain
and see across valleys.

Swim a river
and reach new ground.

Listen in stillness
and hear the Divine.

2 comments:

Dr. Mike said...

Altruism

The first hand’s friendship,
The second, intuition;
The third, the other.

[Disposable Haiku November 7, 011]
Dr. Mike

Dr. Mike said...

"More than any other American poet writing today, perhaps more than any poet since Whitman and Dickinson, Charles Wright has recorded in his poems a lifetime of spiritual seeking. That pursuit has had more of Emily Dickinson's skepticism than Walt Whitman's affirmation, more of her struggles with Puritanism, than what Galway Kinnell once called Whitman's "mystical all lovingness." And yet the urge toward Whitman's embrace of multitude and the discretion of Dickinson's straitened thought have combined to create through Wright's genius an instrument which is to the spiritual life in contemporary poetry what the sonnet was for John Donne and George Herbert. Charles Wright has, for over forty years of mastery, given us a mode and a means for that journal of the soul which American poetry has, since Whitman and Dickinson, always had at heart. He has almost singlehandedly invented an American form of the devotional poem."
—Mark Jarman, Soul Journals: The Daily Devotions of Charles Wright