Your Own Earth
A Spontaneous Poem
The doomsday fire has scorched every last little thing away.
But as of old, the blue mountains rise among the white clouds.
- Zen Capping Phrase
Good day! I would like to share a spontaneous poem that sprouted from me a few days ago while in a spiritual bath (I’ll write soon about spiritual baths, what they look like and how to give yourself one.) Anyway, sometimes it is nice to simply find a rhythm and let the mind meander in playful prose without trying to develop a sophisticated rhymescheme, story, or multilayered meanings. I enjoyed the process so much that I recorded the musings that were flowing from me and then transcribed them.
In this writing you will find the raw uploaded audio (you may hear dripping water in the background) and the transcription of what was happily flowing from me.
Maybe this simple writing will inspire you to write some poetry today, or maybe find some time to relax, bathe, muse, play, and/or laugh!
I hope you enjoy!
With love and gratitude,
Awe
Note: I recorded 3 audios of different spontaneous poems. You can find the first one here. This is the second one. I will upload the third after I transcribe it.
Emotions all spent, he’s packed up and left for home.
The door of his hut stands open, on these long spring days.
- Zen Capping Phrase
Your Own Earth ~ Raw Audio Recording
Your Own Earth ~ Transcription
Last year I was a temple it seems one that was worried more about creating than dreams one that wanted to open the door for all styles of living one who was just here making his own styles of beginning one who invited all without beckoning wanting to see all in it’s true light - true reckoning I stood and cleaned up the walls and the halls and all of the other things I call home. I invited all those who roam and all those who wander and meanderers too, I just wanted to develop some type of a school. Who wants to enter and who can teach? it doesn’t really matter, come! bring and sing when you preach. All I really want to do is to allow for the space to grow forms allow the space to do the things and show off what you might have learned and what you know can you leave a different person? That’s more than a book can do That’s more than what a teacher can do that’s why you go to school One where you’re not just a student or a teacher where either faculty in flowers and all the other things in the ether go ahead and find those things that make green from yellow and blue and bring them in and show them to your classmates too everyone here encouraged to share there’s nothing out there except more of that wandering laughing air bring it in here and let it escape from your chest go ahead and find other ways that allow you to rest not ways that make you feel tired but seams but other things that allow relaxation to actually be for in relaxation you can actually receive and that’s with an open hand, palm up, no fist, no strut, no reason to try to hide sacred knowledge, no reason to have the arcane be the only school you acknowledge allow your teacher to simply be a flower or a tree - that simple buzzing bee that is collecting honey it always will stem from the same gentle longing and just know that you being here is your belonging and you can go ahead and belong all you wish you are loved you are the beloved and you are rich in your own life and in your own wealth imagine this was all built for you there isn’t much stealth except in your own mind where you want to hide the game from all others and this is because you love lovers and you love your mothers and brothers and all of the others who exist in your life and you kind of want them to be separate - and that’s ok too but you might just try just seeing what compassion can do if you decide that there all the same person too or at least the same being and that being is just here being itself and that’s still there without any style of deserving its all internal wealth its all something that is inherent in you you might as well break open your heart too Because what’s inside is not all mind what is inside is something that’s very easy to find- actually, to think twice you shouldn’t go looking because as soon as you put that there now you’re cooking a fire and a feast that isn't really for anyone because you are the one who will hide it from someone and you are the one who will hide it from you too so as soon as you stop hiding, there is no finding it’s just true. So, go ahead - pick up your ladder or your shovel if you desire, but honestly what you need more is that internal fire that thing that comes directly from your eyes and ignites what you see and gives it life. that is why we are here. You aren’t a teacher, you’re not a student you’re not all the staff, you're the school! In fact it’s not all for learning it's a leaving behind who you once thought you were and in that moment life becomes more of a blur things that you thought were solid just never were and now you can create and develop your own earth
Thank you for reading,
I hope you enjoyed!
With love,
Awe World Experiencer
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