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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-11-11 10:44 AM

I gazed at the flowing river
on a partly cloudy morning.
In the stillness a thought formed:
“What do I believe in?”
”What do I really believe?”

The sun peeked from behind a cloud;
touched the still-wet sand
where I stood: a woman in white silk
appeared between land and water.
With a sensuous demeanor
and a smile that would light a night,
she extended her arms.

She beckoned me;
bade me lie beside her
in the dancing fire of the sun;
the whirling of the wind;
the whisperings of shifting sand:
she took me within the soul of her...

And just before she left
she said these enigmatic words:
“Believe everything.
Believe in nothing.”

Those words were her only legacy
but I saw that if we believe “in” anything
we become trapped by that belief,
everything else becomes a lie to our mind;
but if we simply believe everything,
we empower ourselves to listen and hear,
and in the hearing is the love we seek.
“He who has ears, let him hear...”

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

1 posted 2006-11-11 11:59 AM

I am (perhaps unfortunately..as many folk might say?!) seldom struck virtually
‘speechless’....but, this poem did it to me!! [dearest ‘spirits that be’...I wish I could write like the followin', for example!]:

She beckoned me;
bade me lie beside her
in the dancing fire of the sun;
the whirling of the wind;
the whisperings of shifting sand:
she took me within the soul of her...

And just before she left
she said these enigmatic words:
“Believe everything.
Believe in nothing.”

What I “Believe”...is that WindWalker is a hyper-fine, golden ‘poetic Voice'
...walkin’ forever in the breezes of that grand ‘immortal plain’ where fine [‘Unversal’-level] poesy eternally roams!

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2006-11-11 12:56 PM

Windwalker,
you paint truth and promise in the colors of the rainbow.

Write on!
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

3 posted 2006-11-11 01:03 PM

Oh...but the beauty of this, so delicate and precise...what a pleasure to believe!
Hugs WW,
One of your best I have read.
A bow to you...WIHWT.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2006-11-11 06:01 PM

There you go again, gifting us with profound truths, wrapped so beautifully even the rainbows are jealous.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2006-11-11 06:08 PM

E x q u i s i t e ! !

Autumn, the year's last loveliest smile~

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

6 posted 2006-11-11 10:59 PM

“Believe everything.
Believe in nothing.”

believe this
I love this poem

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

7 posted 2006-11-14 06:27 AM

simply beautiful!!

Be well
Roniece

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