Black River, Michigan, July 2014
From Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse:
[...] "It is this what you mean, isn't it: that the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future?" [...]
Siddhartha's lesson
the river is without time
yet the sea beckons
Perhaps what you've captured is Kerouac's "point of ecstasy", JzB ....
ReplyDeleteAll the best --
...universe is patient
ReplyDeleteonly man keeps time
Powerful insight in this haiku. Philosophical.
ReplyDelete"I must go down to the sea again,
ReplyDeleteTo the lonely sea and the sky;
And all I ask is a tall ship
And a star to steer her by..."
Still can't shake these lines from the John Masefield that I had to memorize in school years ago...
"the John Masefield poem"
Deleteyes ... still the sea beckons ...
ReplyDeletethere is something timeless yet an instant in that river.
ReplyDeletethought provoking!
ReplyDeleteThe river without time keeps it's own inner clockworks :)
ReplyDeleteLike grandchildren - they eat when they are hungry, play when awake and keep us on our toes even when they sleep.