Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances
A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances | Richard Jarrette
2 posts
A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances is a poetry cycle of singular beauty in nature and reveals an inherent Buddhist quality. Jarrette's poems are clear and meditative, unfailingly beautiful. They are self-aware but not self-obsessed, singing with the ecstatic humility of a mystic or shaman as they join all the subjects of a life well lived within nature that is ever present. The poems dance and sing and play and rest with their subjects to present a truly beautiful vision of the world. The ending poem, “The Pond,” is perfectly representative of all the others before it, and yet its impressive scope doesn't rob any glory from what precedes it. The poems create their own world where they solve their own problems, build memories, and speak to each other. Richard Jarrette's book is a manifestation of the inherent conversation between human nature and the wild around us that sustains indivisible mutual integrity and ceases at our peril.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
quote
VioletBramble
post image

A Girl Sings to Death

A girl in an orange dress climbs
the spreading cypress and sings.
She hangs like a spider monkey
and looks at things upside down.
A red-tail perched in the crown calls
to her mate on the bell tower cross.
Death has been saving an earthly
squirrel for the hawk‘s children.
Death has been saving a snake
for them, it has a rat in its belly.
The girl makes a place in her song
for the cries and the wind listens.

19 likes1 comment
quote
Lcsmcat
post image
TheSpineView 😊 5y
37 likes1 comment