Rain Koan

[dr_con]

Rain Koan

 

I respect the sense of impending rain

the heaviness, the suspension of self

but no rain comes. Are we to call our

First people liars? The Rain Dancers

just magical thinkers, in motion

 

beneath an empty sky

stretching from horizon to horizon

an unfamiliar feeling to those living

in valleys, earth hiding the curve

of heaven except for the myth

of rainbows, articulated

here as "Everything

is trying, to prove

the perfection

of its own

perce-

ption"

 

along the bend

we can ask, "What is perfection?"

Where does it come from

and where does it go?

In my case laziness

is often confused

with wisdom-

 

A heavy cloud

limits the sky

 

the deer lay down

giving in________to the inevitable

 

it begins to rain.

[badger11]

Poetry swimming above the limits of thought...

 

 

badge :0)

[tonyv]

Yes, the poem has the sense of "everything is the way that it is, the way it should be." Very well written.

 

Tony

[dr_con]

Thanks Tony, Badge! My own postmodern koan;-)

 

DC

[dedalus]

"Where does it come from/ where does it go?"

 

Ahh, where indeed!

 

Now let me show you the face of your unborn child .... your grandchildren, lining up even now to be born. All these things are foretold and already set in motion. All that is required is patience and the suspension of disbelief.

 

In the meantime, as you mention, it rains ...

 

Bren