at a certain point in the morning, sunlight streaming in from a back window catches a leaf-laden branch of english ivy and sends this shadow-necklace across a wall. until eventually - as the poet h.d. wrote in this excerpt from her poem "evening":
"shadow seeks shadow,
then both leaf
and leaf-shadow are lost."
it's a lot like life in a larger sense isn't it?!
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5 comments:
Hi Steven
these lines sound a little like a zen koan...
does a leaf cast a shadow when the sun goes down?
Happy Days
hi delwyn, and i was thinking of jung's work around shadows as i wrote this posting . . . there's something of a melting of essences - a deliquescence. steven
Hi Steven
Yes the shadows coalescing with the other parts of self and then all becoming something else - a transformation..
I have never seen that word delinquence before - I like it...
Happy Days
Oh and I looked up HD and read a bit of her full and turgid biography
...but found some poems I resonnated with. One called sea poppies and strangley enough last night I began a novel by that name by Amitav Ghosh - 'A Sea of Poppies'
thanks for the intro to HD
Happy Days
h.d. was new to me when i wrote this piece actually delwyn. what a life she led and under such extraordinary circumstances. i'm going to be looking at more of her writing and i'll start with "sea poppies".
steven
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