There Is A Gentleness
There is a gentleness
Which is neither soft nor sweet
But emanates from strength.
There is a gentleness
Which stills the storms and violence,
The anger and the lashing out,
The search for scapegoats and excuses.
And when the all familiar folly
Shapes to repeat
There is a gentleness
Which silences the neurotic
And silences the lout.
Even if in some strange context
They both can have their uses.
There is a gentleness
Which works from inner silence,
Soothing and hypnotic,
The inner chattering falls away
And then
There is a gentleness
Which is reflective in the face of loss,
Allows a real Conscience
To speak.
It is only when violence and frustration
Come into play
Again
That I should ask myself
"Why am I so weak?"
© Geoff Davis 2004
C'è una Gentilezza
C'è una gentilezza
che non è debole nè dolce
ma viene dalla forza.
C'è una gentilezza
che calma le tempeste e la violenza,
la rabbia e l'agitazione,
la ricerca di capri espiatori e scuse
è quando tutta la familiare follia
comincia a ripetersi
C'è una gentilezza
che zittisce il nevrotico
e zittisce lo zoticone
anche se in qualche strano contesto
entrambi possono avere la loro utilità.
C'è una gentilezza
che viene dal silenzio interiore,
rassicurante e ipnotica.
I pensieri rumorosi vanno via
e poi
C'è una gentilezza
che si riflette in un senso di vuoto,
permette alla vera Coscienza
di parlare.
E' solo quando la violenza e la frustrazione
tornano
di nuovo
che devo chiedere a me stesso:
"Perchè sono cosi debole?"
(Translated into Italian by the author and M R Selenu - 2011)
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Let No Man Say There is an End
'A poor poet imitates, a good poet steals' said T S Eliot. I have to confess that I 'stole' a line or two of this short piece from T.S. Eliot himself (from 'Little Gidding' one of 'The Four Quartets') in the full knowledge that I was doing so.
Let No Man Say There Is An End
Let no man say there is an end
For no end fails to mark a new beginning.
Mankind, bacteria of the Universal Mind,
Subject to decay and death and re-creation
Running through a river of relentless change.
Expose the secret of vibration
Then there is no end, and no beginning;
There is everything.
© Geoff Davis
from Behind The Mask (Outposts Publications) 1981
Let No Man Say There Is An End
Let no man say there is an end
For no end fails to mark a new beginning.
Mankind, bacteria of the Universal Mind,
Subject to decay and death and re-creation
Running through a river of relentless change.
Expose the secret of vibration
Then there is no end, and no beginning;
There is everything.
© Geoff Davis
from Behind The Mask (Outposts Publications) 1981
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