#2494 -- in admiration of the trees

 

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in admiration of the trees

over the mountain from Kinbune to Kurama

 

and deeper in amongst                 

breathing what they breathe

catching breath up

 

into the understory dark

still at

steps climbing

up out to bright

 

catch a passage of cloud for far

that’s the view

 

at some points only a forest of roots

 

trees tall as the stream is long

 

a shower and mud traipse

comes then the sun

 

archaic of course

our fathers’ sun

and their mothers’ moon

sky hiding

 

not so many stars

 

daylight would spoil them  

 

rhythm’s of the forest’s breath

of paws, of one’s way on

 

there are voices a mountain can spare

 

to speak of the mountain

one abandons the word

 

day here is just as long as light lasts

 

some mountains won’t have a top

keep thinking you’ve made it but

 

I whisper up the god just here

it’s only the touch of a bell

 

one side of the mountain’s wild

other’s all devotion, built

 

toil, suffering, hope

 

touch of the breeze told

 

find yourself here

 

I know which temple mine is