
THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD
The sound of a bell
Still reverberating,
or a blackbird calling
from a corner of the field,
asking you to wake
into this life,
or inviting you deeper
into the one that waits.
Either way
takes courage,
either way wants you
to be nothing
but that self that
is no self at all,
wants you to walk
to the place
where you find
you already know
how to give
every last thing
away.
The approach
that is also
the meeting
itself,
without any
meeting
at all.
That radiance
you have always
carried with you
as you walk
both alone
and completely
accompanied
in friendship
by every corner
of the world
crying
Allelujah.
– David Whyte
Jean Vanier: L’Arche
Watching his towering figure disappearing into the dusk, I thought of a line from a 16th-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross. “A la tarde,” he wrote, “te examinarán en el amor.” In the evening of life, you will be examined in love.
https://www.1843magazine.com/content/features/maggie-fergusson/jean-ark
Cantos
I have tried to write paradise
Do not move, let the wind speak,
that is paradise
Let the Gods forgive what I have made
May those I have loved
try to forgive what I have made
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