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No Need to Explain
by Carol Alena Aronoff → (All Poetry by Carol Alena Aronoff)
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 No Need to Explain

 

I am falling in love with the mystery–

all mystery–

from the novel to the numinous

from knots of thought unraveling

leaving stillness, wonderment

to the place of unknowing–

that vast and open universe

beyond idea.

 

I wonder as I touch the petals

of an evening primrose

if it is also touching me, if I am

birthing palm fronds and crickets

as I embrace the morning.

I am delighted not to know

where thoughts go when

they’ve had their say,

 

where belief weighs heaviest

before it breaks like an autumn

bough when I forget to hold on.

It is hard to stay open when ego

seeks certainty like a homing pigeon,

distractions float as a mirage

before me and names like apple

 

tree and elephant stand in

for essence. What waits

beyond the veil of expectation?

A pebble drops into a pond,

a rooster crows. a neighbor cries

for a lost child.

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "No Need to Explain"
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on March 12, 2014
nice imagery

Reviewed by steve patterson
Reviewed on March 7, 2014
well done. well written, well read.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 7, 2014
An eclectic collection of thoughts that have a nice wholeness to them, connected to nature in a way that can relate.

Ron

Reviewed on March 7, 2014
Great poem! I especially like the 2nd and the 3rd stanzas.

Sandie


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