Instructions



Instructions

instructed by how things are
Effected by the living day
Within the spirit that
Slays the dragon within our dreams

To find the spring within
The childhood innocence of man
Quietly it wakes

Open to its presence of what can be
Like imagery of flowing mountains
Amidst the shadows of walking rivers
There are the things which come to see
To be the being of itself

As if the universe was in a single drop of water
To capture the whole in just its parts
Questions that answer without the question
Which it lives within itself

Where mountains and rivers become our teachers
Self reflected in all abounds
The open spirit of the living forms
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXX AXBAC XXXC BXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 651
Words 122
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5, 4, 3

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