Light on the Page

WHAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED FREELY, GIVE FREELY

What you have received freely, give freely. This is the motto of Light on the Page. Should I lose what I’ve received to the flash and flicker of life, to the slip and slightness of day? There’s every inducement to do so. Every ad, everything that testifies to itself, asks you to do that. Will I sell my experience as hostage to the world and let it go its own way? No. But I will yield it to life, I will give it freely. What you have received freely, give freely.

I receive freely in poetry – others receive in other ways. I never know what’s coming – I don’t try to second-guess the spirit that’s speaking to me. But I always, always try to hear it truly and let its speech become my words. That will never change. Into the silence, then, of moss-light and fern-path. The guidance is always around me, of flowers and berries and wood. I am never alone – the leaves are my listeners, the branches ears. All I find is my losing. It’s the greatest gain of all, the wisdom of trials and changes and hope.

Footsteps

Humble the pathways leading from my home

into the slip and slightness of the day –

if my gaze wanders, gives in to the light,

I’ll lose the sure footing I’ve gained through time.

Patient the waters trickling past my door

down the hill into past lives and livings –

will I leave them to tumble without me,

will I teach my own footsteps their purpose?

Hope

Into the silence, moss-light and fern-path,

I wander soft-footed away from home.

All I know is my coming, the guidance

around me, of flowers and berries and wood.

Never alone in the lost home of life,

the leaves are my listeners, branches ears.

All I find is my losing, the wisdom

within me, of trials and changes and hope.

Best wishes, today,

Landar

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