Body on Earth
A selection of haiku poems I have written exploring the wonder and intangibilities felt, known, and hinted at when immersed in the natural world. And what this means to be a heart leaning human amidst it all.
Explored through six themes: witness, heart and breath, movement, light, flesh, remember.
Flesh
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the weight on the earth
is the earth, no division
to feel is to be
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here stands that something
a being not as before
she’s ripe as the dew
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a world to be seen
but one forgotten in touch
the skin it longs too
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the earth, kept in mind
holds the dreams from the body
a body, on earth
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Remember
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absence, and then what
one thing you mustn’t forget
the sun built the world
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held within your palms
how many ways of knowing
held between your eyes
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Witness
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to see, what’s a sight?
when invisible fills you
if only we saw
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whenever you pause
it reveals itself to you
a gaze engaged and returned
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aware of the door
an opening to the real
oh, what a relief
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the smallest movement
I learn how to bear witness
and then I can see
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Heart and breath
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and like this I flow
how many ways to be me
edgeless and faceless
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and then I could see
skyscrapers breathing their sky
one inch off the ground
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the life is right here
two hands rest upon her heart
pulsing breathing earth
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a feeling comes twice
feeling held feeling witnessed
what a beholding
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Movement
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the sound of the air
is obstruction and silence
flowing over earth
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where does movement start
when did stillness feel the pull
questions not answers
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I hear you coming
I see not you but your trail
I feel you away
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Light
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intangible is
what is dark is not hidden
light and its absence
Unpublished work Copyright 2019 Sophie Monkman
