16 January 2023

Allowing the Journey, Part 3 (and 4)

 

I swallowed the song “the way knows the way” today,
and then robin-like, regurgitated and fed
its words to friends everywhere: Here is a foot
on the pathway to truth; get on, get on.  Let’s make
metaphor a shortcut instead of a puzzle.
 
The sun doesn’t read directions each time it turns.
Chefs need not use six recipes to prepare one.
Yet I check how to direct each time I stage plays.
And then, laying the books aside, noting past lives,
I hear my voice discovering, each day the way.

 

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Allowing the Journey, Part 4

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?                
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.                   
Alice: I don't much care where.                                       
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go                                  .
Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.                                  
The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”     

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland





2 comments:

  1. "The way knows the way." I love this. A wonderful poem (and philosophy_. I especially admire the closing lines. Lovely to read you, as always, Susan.

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  2. Fabulous way to put it- swallowed the song and then regurgitated and fed
    its words to friends - good songs, poems, advice...do show the way that knows the way!

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