Meditation Is an Empty Room

January 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which falls on January 28. This year is The Year of the Rooster.

Today’s poem describes the experience of meditation.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Meditation is an empty room.

Enter it, and you will be at peace.

Desire and decay, blight and bloom,

In you for just this timeless time will cease.

These are moments one can simply be

A windless lake, a mirror to the sky,

The selfless self, in whose infinity

Immersed, one will become an I-less eye.

One’s thoughts, fatigue, desire knock on the door.

No matter, the wind whispers from the shore.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/medita.html. For more poems about the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/chinesenewyearpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

January 23: Luck Is like a Tide Pulled by the Moon

January 24: The World Is Not Sufficiently in Order

January 25: There Are Those Who Shy Away from Being

January 26: Tolerance Is Hard to Tolerate

January 27: There Is No Point in Being Merely Clever

January 28: Take Me, for Example: I’m Pretty Attractive, No

January 29: Meditation Is an Empty Room