Mountains and Rivers are Speaking
_This poetry and lecture series questions the self-importance displayed by human vision and understanding.
It seeks to allow the other-than-human world to be heard while leaving enough space to wonder.
(excerpt)
Floating ice, very quiet
This ferry
once was a thought
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Music dance poetry the land
rest work dance cook work
dance music poetry people
solitude nature solitude people poetry the land wilderness company
Wasn’t it all connected once, embedded in human experience?
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Little white flakes fall from the sky
A bit like feathers
You cannot count them
You try to hold them in your fingers and they disappear
They fall and fall
The cat sleeps on the shelf
Breathing quietly
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Some seeds stay dormant for many, many years, before germinating at most unexpected places
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A little cricket
It appears here, it appears there
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Nothing else than a verse or a bird cry
Or a glass that fell over
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Those who love to leave no traces, who are they?
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Her eyes were sad
It seems people here are being taught that they are empty in the beginning, nothing, not important, and that it is the task of their lives to make something of themselves
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The road is a refuge
for nature lovers
for those without means or land
for those who want to live freely
and according to their own nature
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The concept of man and woman dissolves
The concept of human being, earth and animal dissolves
To feel connected you need at least two
Why calling the other other?
Why calling the earth earth, the animal animal or the plant plant?
Neither active, nor passive
Neither connected, nor unconnected
The individual disappears:
Love
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