Photo by Kim Nelson
caught in eye of lens
water, pure, descends
to fount below
no desire to bend
against, away from wind
content to flow
simple example for men
in the moment, zen
contentment know
Flowing Example
Photo by Kim Nelson
caught in eye of lens
water, pure, descends
to fount below
no desire to bend
against, away from wind
content to flow
simple example for men
in the moment, zen
contentment know
Life is all so easy, if we also could try to always go within its flow. Beautiful zen thinking Kim.
Wonderfully relaxing soulful poem. K
So true, beautiful flow to help us remember the value of getting into life’s.
I read your work on Poets United this morning and vowed to come here to tell you how much I love rhyme. It is my natural state, and it’s really nice to find someone to whom it comes so naturally!
Thank you, Karen. I do gravitate toward rhyme. I even talk that way at times, which was delightfully entertaining to my children when they were young. It is a form of play for me!
Lovely
Zen contentment — what a peaceful poem this is, Kim.
smiles…..great capture in the pic kim….and no need to bend to the wind…content just to flow…i am all for the zen…smiles.
nice…i would love to sit by that fountain and get a bit sprinkled with fresh water…nice..
I love the flow and rhyme within the poem. So wonderful to hear!
The lights and the water droplets seem to rhyme.
really nice piece. Love the opening stanza. really illustrates the picture but also takes it to another level. Nicely done.
Kim, still grooving on the picture – more in a letter but probably after I return from CA. We leave in two days.
I shall keep this fountain image and your poem in mind as I struggle with pre-flight anxiety. Try to see myself as a drop of water, dripping down slowly, to once again become part of the larger pool. It’s a fitting metaphor for all paths in life, I believe… Graceful. Love, Amy
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if we can but stay in the moment and truly pay attention to the “now” how much more satisfying life can be. really enjoyed this, Kim!
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That last stanza really captures the essence of your idea, so well-expressed in every line.
You’ve managed to express so much with so few words. Amazing. The last stanza captures the essence for me – we would all be better off to stop for a moment and take lessons from “every day” things.
Simply. elegant. sufficiency. The poem does in form and pace what it suggests as a truth.
Zen contentment… the elements make us n yet we forget the very nature… to flow uninhibited!
Peace… hugs xoxox
Beautiful and wise. I love it.
a lovely minimalism of language here– and in the compressing, getting to the essence– xxxj
Very nice capture of the water in the fountain ~ I like the zen contentment ~
One gets that feeling sometimes. Unyielding and unbending not wanting to give way to others when principles are compromised. Wonderful thoughts Kim!
Hank
Lovely, Kim. This is so soothing and it reads like a mantra. Ommm…
You’re whole poem is Zen :)
The trick is to make my whole life Zen… I’m working it!
I love this, Kim… in fact would like to refer to it in Imaginary Garden’s A Word with Laurie (10-19-12), if that’s okay.
Absolutely,Laurie. I’d love to play in the garden! :-)
Nice peaceful poem.
:) Fine poem, Kim. But history was made by those who went against the flow!!!!
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You are absolutely right, Jim; and “the flow” I reference isn’t necessarily the world’s. It is the individual’s. It is the path each is on. It is authenticity. THAT often goes against the flow of expectation. It takes us down the road less traveled.
So smooooooooth!
aloha Kim – cool using water as a guide for human beings. i like that link because it connects in many ways with our life and being. aloha.