TRAIN

Staying on track..Thanks Whale.
🐳🕉

love the Aum

Thoughtful journey - like it

Thanks dear Sweet

Wonderful Write Whale This had Wonderful pause!!!
Stillness in our crazy world is not often enough...when that art is truly learned or embraced it gives so much more to life-(I love the capture of it-on a moving train-Witty that)

Much of this philosophy I've tried to embrace and walk with since some yrs ago...and thankfully have -it cuts a lot of negatives out of life.
Though at times-ripples must be made or change for positives cannot come out of inactivity.
Fine lines rest between peace/sloth
Truly Whale-I Love this Write and it's glowing energy!!!

quite so brother - just been feeling that in this time of extreme reaction now is the time for reflection and if action required that it be tempered with kindness Kindness has become the contra argument

The last lines are a true gem, a philosophy long forgotten that only in stillness we can truly hear and feel.

Thanks Vee - sitting in an ashram drinking chai certainly helped with that one ☺️

Beautiful, soulful contemplations. My Buddhist teacher often makes the metaphor of the muddied water and its cloud of confusion as opposed to the still waters and their clarity. Zen musings and they are music to me. Namaste.

Namaste 🙏🏽 yes much to contemplate on

"Be water, my friend."

The world has become filled with talkers and few listeners, indeed.  If one does not listen, they cannot learn. Maybe this is why the beaver dams the river, so everything can be stilled for just a bit, and the trees see themselves.

Be still and know that I am God.

☕ contemplating over evening chai...

my favourite Bruce Lee quote my sister!!

Amazing piece Whale...The Lord gave claws to the crow... Awesome

Hey thanks Tim

Profound, especially the first phrase.

Thanks for the comment much appreciated

envision trains crowded
& moving across dry, dusty lands;
the sparkling pool is serene, divine,
but my element is to flow like the river...

Thanks John - trains and rivers

For why give prayers to God if one
Has preyed on the widowed and weak

Indeed?  So well written.  I deeply appreciate!

Lovely to have you here!

Wow mydear whale, wow
then this took my airs:

"Be not like running water
Be like a pool of still water
See yourself therein"

I believe I've been smacked
undeniably



-Howlings

my dear howling - smack indeed!

The water splashed on the grapes is a lovely sensual image; you have a real gift for connecting directly and immediately with the reader's senses with images like that. I also liked the little bit of language play in "whereveryone", which evokes the feeling of many voices blending into one in the noise and confusion of many people speaking at once. The story here is a short but powerful one. x

your critique is authentique - very much appreciated Jack