for the Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong
your two pink
chinese tree peonies
roll in the breeze
anemones tasting
the sea-deep blush
of flushed cheeks
rising to the surface
and sinking, a diver
for conch shells
your two bamboo
knees knocking, opening
and closing, opening
and closing
wings on a moth's back
paper fans
in white hands
a snail winds
its trail across
your two thighs
pale sail in the night
long pearl
tongue of moon.
Jill Stephanie Morgyn is a seeker, contemplative poet and rogue scholar.
Who
- Jill Stephanie Morgyn
- is a 21st-century seeker, philosopher, poet, and evolving warrior. She strives to understand the nature of reality, exploring her multidimensional existence as body-mind-spirit-energy-emotion -stillness-motion and her function as microcosm of the expanding and contracting universe. Jill has a BA Hons. in Dramaturgy from the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is currently in a Masters program in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She trains in disciplines that ex e/o rcise all aspects of the self that she is and is not. She has been known to practice the tools of Iaido, kung fu, meditation and qigong for doing the work of remembering.
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom.
Morihei Ueshiba
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.
Morihei Ueshiba