Poetry
My intention behind each one of my "poems" is for me through them to be therapeutic: to raise the Life Energy, the Healing Spirit.
Arborophilia: Writings on Trees
Inspired by his lifelong love of trees, Arborophilia is a magnificent collection of therapeutic writings by one of the great healers of our age._____
A pigeon with one leg hobbles over to him – Knowing more than the medical students. How can they walk past – and not Know?
Wordsworth “believed with Coleridge that All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."
Virtually all poetry has a lung meridian problem, what I call “Wonderland” – an escape from reality into fantasy.
The last line of probably the last poem of Su Tung-p'o (1037-1101), knowing he was soon to die: “Beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge.”
I have long felt very close to the poetry of Po Chu’i (778-846), the most popular poet of the T’ang dynasty, the great age of Chinese poetry. Burton Watson writes of his “rapt appreciation of the ordinary,” which profoundly influenced not only the poets of China but also of Korea and Japan – including, I believe, the haiku poets.
