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A simple gate of logs

Shawn Nevins, Shawn Nevins poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Shawn Nevins
(1968 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Contemporary

A simple gate of logs
in the stark light of morning:
It is glowing in Silence.
It is every look of longing answered.
It is loneliness unmasked
as a revelation.
It is an echo over the broad water of life.

The essential fact is as still
as this moment without me.

 

 

 

Themes

  Dawn
  Light
  Silence
  Water
 



 

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