CDM's Poetry
Most of the poems in this collection are from my experience as a student of Vipassana Meditation. You will also see the theme of facing my late wife Susanne's illness. I wrote them for myself and to share with my meditator friends, so there may be some terms unfamiliar to others. Now that a few years have passed, I am bravely sharing these writings with the wider world in case there is something here that you might relate to. Enjoy!
All photos+photo manipulations are by me, taken in Massachusetts, Myanmar, and Cambodia.
Here at the Edge of my Seat scratchings · sun · agitation · what's needed · meditating alone among friends · the edge · salt · flow (i) · flow (ii) · cycles · the flavor (i) · the flavor (ii) · toes · choice · an ordinary day · the brush · fallen · sweet machinery of undoing · the stranger · after the hour of demons · morning sit · stepping · undone · in the wilds · the find · course · who can stop the sun? · jumping · what i got · crows · boundary land · echos · enough · crawl · passage (i) · passage (ii) · was it ever? · all |
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Spring Service / Joy and Dust spring service · joy and dust · friction · busy day · in the forest · new year · any old fool · the candle dream · fourth round · from the root · making waves · out of couch experience · restless · gristly · harnessed · climate change |
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Inner Truth inner truth · striving now to meet you · living things · quarry · valentine · remember · the worth · leaking · when i gone · october garden · all that we know · glorious · unrelenting |
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Roots and Fragments in these chilly waters · roots · pulling the cord · as the earth turns · race relations · am i contributing · towards the light · this very spot · particle and wave · a different pagoda · the coming and going · progressive · shadow of the mountain · strangeness · we danced · mirror · movers of earth · take this poem |
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October Garden passage · the candle dream · fourth round · the coming and going · we danced · leaking · valentine · remember · october garden · when i'm gone · granola la-la |
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All these Words to be · leslie · all these words · now that i'm learning · so strange · beneath the soil · feel · near · protected · undeniably · only · very deep · this craft · turning · granola la-la · archipelago · heck · of golden boy · color · and light · shine · peace distinct increase |
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Path of Storms in the deep · mountain · faded flowers · ha! · your wave · all at a go · apparition · good deeds · little victories on the train from new york · go ahead · five silly and less silly mettā day poems: (i) storms · (ii) beginning · (iii) alternate definition · (iv) yumma: the four ignoble truths · (v) prunes
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