Waiting in motion
No upheavals threaten
No raging passion stirs, pulls
The com-motion of the world whirls round
Yet in my re-motion I watch undisturbed, unmoved
Waiting in motion
Watching myself watch
E-motion’s de-motion from the fore
Ego drifts, removed from office
A-motion accomplished
Waiting in motion
Days follow nights
Words are still in me, voice is quiet, vision dimmed
Loco-motion maintained in the flesh
While awaiting my Soul’s own pro-motion
It will not be hurried
Stillness is required
Seed must die and rest in the darkness
Clinging kills, ego blinds, feeling can be false
So for now I wait . . . in motion
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20 responses to “Motion”
i love the idea of Waiting in motion… maybe that is what we do as we live on, as you suggested in the third stanza… a great poem, indeed, All my best wishes. Aquileana 💫
I do so appreciate you stopping by here. Thank you.
I smile. I’ve uncapped the bottle where I’d saved the ambiance of yesteryear to savor when I need a place to sit and think. It feels like a long time, and I enjoyed walking on the plush lawn of your words, running my fingers over the tops of wheat grass that is beginning to sprout. It is Spring somewhere, and I have found the window opened to the warm breeze of your “Waiting In Motion.”
Hey my friend. Your words settle on me like a warm balm seeping I’m nto the cracks of me. And as they come to rest I am still. And from that still place I exhale a sigh of homecoming and welcome. Thank you sugar. 🙂
I like it…. but I am trying to work in lotion…. as a solution, an abulation, a revolution….I’ll have to send some…..an execution….
🙂 very nice
Is-ness is a cool word 🙂
I’m glad you stopped by
Sometimes the mind needs to regroup prior to a creative splurge. Waiting and watching. A great bit of poetry Plato.
Hello brother
Just wanted to say Thank You So Much! You are most generous… 🙂
Well, we always knew waiting was an action verb. And we gotta be doing SOMETHING while we wait or we cease to function. I think the most we can hope for is that we LIKE what we’re in motion doing while we’re waiting! Otherwise waiting just plain sucks… 😉
At this moment it is neither like or dislike, not happy or sad, just isness
Is that a comfortable place for you to be?
It is not comfortable or uncomfortable. There is some slight urging to move toward one or the other but even that idea I watch pass over me
You just have a case of the blahs… Perhaps when you get your hands in that dirt in your garden you’ll find some relief from the isness?
Maybe so sugar but its not unpleasant
Well thank heaven for small gifts of grace then. 🙂
See 🙂
{{{Plato}}}