12/29/2022

hoarding silence

 


This rickety old boat drifts on a wide and slow river, 

a river that bends into the blue sky. 

The boat floats past the village on the far bank, 

with the people and the little marketplace. 

Time is nothing. The boat drifts on, 

past the evergreen trees of the pine woods 

and on into the white and fluffy clouds. 

james lee jobe



Cows in the Evening, a poem by Nikki Wallschlaeger



People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped; by influence, by power, by us. 

Wendell Berry



Everyone's journey 
through this world is the same, 
so I won't complain.
Here on the plains of Nasu, 
I place my trust in the dew. 

 Sōgi, 1421-1502 CE



I hoard silence to use in the passing years. 

I love the emptiness of this quiet room, 

and I love my grief for its power. 

In the shadows and in the dark corners of night 

I see the face of my dead son. 

His beautiful face. 

Just that. 

james lee jobe





Willie Dixon, Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues


When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. 

Malala Yousafzai



To each thing, its own 
true deepest inner nature: 
water does not think 
of itself as consort 
of the bright moonlight it hosts .

 Sōgi, 1421-1502 CE




The sunrise and the sunset don’t need us, 

a fact that eludes most people. 

Night comes and goes with or without us. 

Life is short, and don’t kid yourself; 

this life is all there is. 

So take it all in; the rain, the stars, the moon. 

The wind in the trees of the graveyard. 

james lee jobe





Muddy Waters & Little Walter, Walkin' On 


I’ve woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Stafford



Call it loneliness,
that deep, beautiful color
no one can describe:
over these dark mountains,
the gathering autumn dusk. 

The Priest Jakuren, 1139-1202 CE




The secrets of living welcome us like bees, like honey. Will  tomorrow come? And if it does, will it come for us?

james lee jobe 



We see vulnerability as weakness, whereas in actual fact, it is the source of the possibility of care. 

Malcolm Martin


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