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Enlightenment
Fall 2010   Vol. 27 #1
Fall 2010   Vol. 27 #1

Poems/Not Poems

An Echo of Wang Wei’s Reply to Vice Magistrate Chang

By Stephen Levine

 
 

 

Growing old I love the quiet that used to

disturb me. I have distance on my life.

The boast and pity of self-regard

have fallen somewhat behind.

Heading home, the home I carry with me,

I settle into the clouds. On the mountain

I sit quietly in a sage meadow

visited by the same bees that make lovers

of flowering bushes.

I become part of the golden comb hidden

in the hive humming with delight.

 

 

 

From the Fall 2010 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 27, No. 1)
© 2010 Stephen Levine

Author

Stephen Levine lived quietly, sometimes poetically, with his wife, Ondrea, in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Their website www.LevineTalks.com includes interviews, meditations, unpublished writings and new and older video and audio pieces.

Author

Stephen Levine lived quietly, sometimes poetically, with his wife, Ondrea, in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Their website www.LevineTalks.com includes interviews, meditations, unpublished writings and new and older video and audio pieces.

 
 
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