{"id":3931,"date":"2015-09-09T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:55:58","slug":"two-poems-by-angus-ogilvy-from-lights-in-the-constellation-of-the-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/two-poems-by-angus-ogilvy-from-lights-in-the-constellation-of-the-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems by Angus Ogilvy: from Lights in the Constellation of the Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"motorbike\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cartography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the old maps, he arrived<\/p>\n

just where he had planned to be.<\/p>\n

The landscape conformed to interpretation:<\/p>\n

that hill, those clumps of trees, the village gathered<\/p>\n

around the bridge. He saw the things<\/p>\n

he’d expected to see, given the forecasts,<\/p>\n

the time of year: the lone fox and the raven falling.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He wasn’t prepared for the motorbike<\/p>\n

coming screaming round where the road forked right<\/p>\n

in a curving descent over spreading contours<\/p>\n

to the valley floor. Nothing could indicate how to turn<\/p>\n

avoiding oblivion, the uncharted plunge,<\/p>\n

the way time stretched through the flick of an eye<\/p>\n

to a sound and a light in a circling loop;<\/p>\n

but he did.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"gratitude\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gratitude for Whatever<\/strong><\/p>\n

I cant be anything other<\/p>\n

Than Grateful.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What’s the point?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Anger?<\/p>\n

Hatred?<\/p>\n

Jealousy?<\/p>\n

Lamentation?It is too hard work.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gratitude is the point<\/p>\n

of least resistance.
\n\"angus\"<\/p>\n

Angus was born in Glasgow, grew up in Galloway, and was educated in Edinburgh and Dundee. He has had a career in education which included 25 years as an international school teacher\u00a0and administrator in Spain, China, Nepal, Indonesia and Zimbabwe. Since winning his school poetry prize in his youth, he has had an abiding interest in poetry and his poems have appeared in various publications.\u00a0 He returned to Edinburgh in 2008 and spends his time writing, doing voluntary work, and addressing conferences, seminars and symposiums about the patient experience of cancer using his poetry as an aid to communication. He has recently published a collection of poems,\u00a0Lights in the Constellation of the Crab\u00a0<\/i><\/a>and\u00a0House Clearing by Moonlight<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0in aid of Maggie\u2019s Cancer Caring Centres<\/a>.<\/h6>\n
\u2013 See more at: https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/four-poems-by-angus-ogilvy\/#sthash.R7xcnKtC.dpuf<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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