The third stanza stands unitary. The signature of the poem. The Self of Advaita. Not the little self, but the witnessing awareness. That which we really are. Some have called it spirit; some, the one. Walt: “apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am.” The real writer of poems.~Hridaya Nada 2008
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
5 days ago

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