C.M. Rivers
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Refuge
By day, a daydream ponderer who never gets his fill – by night, a barefoot wanderer who’s wandering still. With the bamboo wind and my golden rain-tree, what a lucky refugee I shall be.
Dear Diary
You must not complain about dust. Dust becomes cloud becomes rain becomes forest becomes life, so you must not complain about dust as you wipe it from a table, books, shelves. May there be an empty space in the palm of my hand, where… Continue Reading “Dear Diary”
Connecting Poetry With Song
Originally posted on C.M. Rivers:
John Lennon’s Imagine, and Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ In the Wind are both songs that – when the music is stripped away – reveal themselves as powerful poems. They have both stood the test of time, asking the heavy…
Now and Again
Originally posted on C.M. Rivers:
Now the giraffe-like lily, turning its head to look out the window in graciousness. Now the blackberry, summer’s thimble, its shape discussed at a celestial seminar where Sun and Moon are merely attendees, two out of ten-thousand. The…
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“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence.” John Muir
