Meditations of Philippe de Saint Maurice, which I’m editing and transforming into haiku, will be published by Mad Bear Books. The Meditations offer insights into spiritual growth. I’ll be posting a few in advance here, interspersed with other work.
The second is surf:
our loves are dolphins
weaving wild unwinding waves
in and out of sight
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our sentiments are seals
on rocks submerged in ocean
slicked in ceaseless tides
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our thoughts’ sea lions
flap and flip on cold bare shores
to breed in rookeries
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our lives’ deep mysteries
will swim and sink and drift through
phosphorescing seas
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like drops in quick waters
loves, thoughts, lives are liquid
flowing surfing beings
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freddie omm
june 2019
text by freddie omm, header pic by pagie page, footer pic by daniel h. tong
Love it – playful yet profound.
Thanks James, that’s kind – and I may well quote your “playful and profound”, it’s very much my kinda quote!😏
My favorite poem of the summer so far!
Thank you so much, Amaya
The almost absurd, comic touches in the metaphors add to (and perhaps subtly undermine, rechannel) the flow and depth of the cumulative streams and waves of their symbolism.
They point to the underlying, autonomous reality of the creatures – the dolphins, seals and sea lions – in which those metaphors and signifiers live, from which they derive their strength, their independent semantic power.