just wondering
“Plucking chrysanthemums along the West fence.
Gazing in silence at the East Cascade foothills.
The Canada geese flying in formation overhead,
Through the soft valley air of morning―
In these things there is a deep meaning,
But when we are about to express it,
We suddenly forget the words.”
- My rephrasing of lines from an unknown Chinese poet
from verses found in 'The Wisdom of Insecurity,’ by Alan Watts, 1951.
A Gardener's Pictorial Memories
"I search and can't find myself.
I belong in chrysanthemum time,
Sharp in calla lilly elongations.
God made my soul
Into an ornamental thing."
- Fernando Pessoa
The Last Second of Summer
The bare branches of an
old shrub
Above its fallen scarlet leaves─
Emptiness or forms?
Chrysanthemums in full bloom
Below clear blue skies─
Forms and emptiness?
The first second of autumn,
The last second of summer─
Neither Forms nor Emptiness,
The spaces of past time,
The realms of dead minds;
Or, bereft of Space and Time,
The Singularity of the Big Bang Sublime.
- Mike Garofalo, Autumn Poems
Mabon, 9/22/2020
Reading the The Heart Sutra from the Buddhist scriptures.
"If all meanings could be adequately expressed in words,
the arts of painting and music would not exist."
- John Dewey
Pragmatism and American Philosophy
"A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell."
- William J. Johnston
Haiku Poems by Mike Garofalo
Pulling Onions (Over 888 Quips and Sayings) by Mike Garofalo
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