Barn Coordinator Claire is currently reading a collection of Buddhist poetry called Tomorrow's Moon.
This poem is one of two favourites she's found so far...
Dreaming The Real
by Linda France
I'm lying down looking at the colour
of sky falling through trees, dreaming
the real, tasting what it feels like to love it.
Why did it take me so long to let go, simply
exhale, so the day could breathe itself in
and open without me standing in the way?
How could I forget the grace of my own body,
strong as this blue, tender as the white
of the wild blossom, warm as midday light?
Let me practise a patience bold enough
to hold every weather, trusting the elements,
the beauty of rain, all its shades of grey.
I want whatever's real to be enough. At least
it's a place to begin. And to master the art
of loving it; feel it love me back under my skin.
This poem features in Tomorrow's Moon, a poetry collection by lay and monastic members of the Forest Sangha that's available for free download here (with the consent of the authors).
