Tag: Vocal Chords

  • Sikkim (haiku) Sequence

    (Written by Maeve O’Sullivan on the month long retreat with Donal Creedon and Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at the Bodhicharya Retreat Centre, January 2017) waxing wolf moon lighting the road to our retreat  *** less cloudy today first sight of Kanchenjunga  *** thunderclap! the new prayer flags get their first blessing  *** walking meditation… the cream-coloured butterfly…

  • Haiku Book Review and Author Interview

    Outside my window is a sweet pea plant.  Today, suddenly it seems, there are only seven flowers, the rest having turned into pods.  Maeve expresses this process of change in one of her Summer haiku: cloudy afternoon my sweet pea flowers becoming peas In these few lines there is a dynamism that paradoxically captures a…

  • Letting Go of Ávila

    I could have travelled there today, could have walked its medieval walls and lit a candle for the vulnerables in the Basilica de San Vincente. I am letting go of the eagle caves, the cathedral, and the Monasterio de Santo Tómas, but most of all, the Convento de Santa Teresa, housing her ring finger, and…

  • Perspective

    PERSPECTIVE Beneath this topography she sees: sandstones shaped by wind and wave, azurites blue and malachites green; fossils, remnants of another age, present her with an insight to a record no longer extant: the dinosaur, the trilobite some footprints, an exotic plant. These granites primordial – crystalline intrusions – now weathered to reveal our igneous…