My Father's Last Poem

30/06/2023 29 min Temporada 3 Episodio 1

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My Dad's favourites: Joe Glazer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5kQXAGhow

UNTITLED POEM ON A FOUR PAPER PLATES
By Raymond Charles Lewis (My dad)

The big dipper
is too low in the sky
to see above the trees, -
emmense, tiny clusters
and mist of the milky
way,
A cow almost brays
or honks,
lapping + lap + soft
slapping the water, -
across the water.
the cow almost brays

were it only this
yet ever pressence
I know,
this grow-up here
around these stars-
the cool of the late autumn -
the wood fire -
today the young preacher
talking sensible death
on the radio,
and today a picture, a photograph–

I never so much
as touched her
hand.
and her wedding
picture has turned
me back,
so deep inside
against the outside world,
I want to go again
away,
I want to wak again
alone.
I want to kneel

someplace & be
beat to death.
Moved on waters
and asleep on land.
Here now I remember
a feeling.


RESOURCES
INSIDEOUT PODCAST - Stephanie Boulet. Checkout Episode 1 on "Recovery"
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/insideout-institute-podcast/id1454173233?mc_cid=1187ba0c8d&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D

AMAZING INSPIRING FILM by writer Todd Perelmuter I Watched 'Aloneness to Oneness' this morning - enjoy! 
https://youtu.be/9M56t0UoW5M

DISCUSSION ON GRIEF
Excerpted from Opening to Grief: Finding Your Way from Loss to Peace, by Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson (Dharma Spring, 2020). Reprinted by permission of Red Wheel/Weiser. All rights reserved.

COOL DUDE: JOHN KIM
https://www.theangrytherapist.com/

O X Y T O C I N
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-increase-oxytocin

R E T R E A T with Buddha, in HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, U.K.
Amaravati
https://amaravati.org/