Lay them down,
all of them:
your hopes and worries
your dreams and fears
lay down all of those
words,
to bring them together
as one.
Put them down
all of them
as if no one can see.
Express your true
feelings
of what is inside.
Stomp out your anger
dance out your joys
cry out your sorrows
as if no one is watching
to bring them together
as one.
_________________________
BY
GARY SNYDER
Lay down these words
Before your mind like
rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the
mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf,
or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an
endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each
rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment
linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As
well as things.
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