Monday, October 2, 2017

MOON RIVER

Hudson River Park
New York City

Evening
 Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.

With the ongoing havoc
the woods this morning is
almost unnaturally still.
Through stalled air, unshadowed
light, a few leaves fall
of their own weight.

The sky
is gray. It begins in mist
almost at the ground
and rises forever. The trees
rise in silence almost
natural, but not quite,
almost eternal, but
not quite.

What more did I
think I wanted? Here is
what has always been.
Here is what will always
be. Even in me,
the Maker of all this
returns in rest, even
to the slightest of His works,
a yellow leaf slowly
falling, and is pleased.

Wendell Berry
Sabbaths 1999, VII
~*~

Afterglow over the River
 Illuminated
 Where the Cicadas Sing

Moon over Samadhi
 Samadhi

Doodle
"What if..."
~*~

LINKS

The Hudson River

History

River Keeper

Samadhi the Yacht

Samadhi in Buddhism

2 comments:

Liz A said...

Oh, thank you for Wendell Berry ... a perfect meditation on this Hill Country morn

Mo Crow said...

with strains of Louis Armstrong singing through the mists of time