Poetry Corner: Beauty Beneath Your Feet

POETRY CORNER

– 4/26/16

Plum blossoms, Birmingham, UK (Photo – Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy).

Shrikaanth K. Murthy

plum blossoms
my fleeting brush
with eternity…
walking over them
as softly as i can

Shrikaanth K. Murthy lives in Birmingham, UK. He says “I once stepped on the cool softness of fallen plum blossoms. So perfect and beautiful, even if ephemeral- unobtrusive in their beauty and beautiful in their unobtrusiveness. “I” ceased to exist as I became one with them, with the cosmos. If only we could all fit in like that, just playing our role, content with ourselves, enriching what is around us, and passing away quietly, back into eternity.”

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Beauty Beneath Your Feet (Photo – Kathabela Wilson).

Johannes S. H. Bjerg

chanting
my way through
the city
I follow the golden line
beneath it all

Johannes S. H. Bjerg, a poet who lives in the village of Hoejbyand, Denmark, went to the nearby city of Copenhagen. He says “I took the train to the inner city, let my feet decide through which streets I should walk and a spontaneous inner -sometimes outer- chanting of the Maha-mantra. Guess the sunshine helped a bit.”

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Beauty Beneath Your Feet -2- (Photo – Kathabela Wilson).

Sheila Windsor

isn’t silence
just your inability
to hear
beneath our feet
the rejoicing of worms

Sheila Windsor is a longtime artist and poet who lives in Bexhill, East Sussex, UK. She has just published a beautiful inspiring book with her poems and paintings, called “Totem.” She says “Just imagine if the earth surface we walk on were transparent and we had enhanced vision enabling us to see the myriad creatures beneath. Stretch our faculties, increase our human sensibilities in that imagining and perhaps we would hear the stones breathe, the clay sing.”

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Sunset, La Jolla, CA (Photo – Wafic Khalil).

Wafic Khalil

barefoot
the soil tickles
my feet
a make-out session
erupts

Wafic Khalil lives in Pasadena, CA and is the publisher of ColoradoBlvd.net. Kathabela was delighted when he was lured by tanka as a short and dynamic way of writing. He recently organized the multi-media eARThFest at Throop Hall in Pasadena, and often walks, looks and listens for the beauty beneath our feet.

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