Wave1

for the question is always

how

out of all the chances and changes

to select

the features of real significance

so as to make

of the welter

a world that will last

and how to order

the signs and symbols

so they will continue

to form new patterns

developing into

new harmonic wholes

so to keep life alive

in complexity

and complicity

with all of being-

there is only poetry.

Wave1 from Walking the Coast by Kenneth White

The Loveliness is everywhere

the loveliness is everywhere
even
in the ugliest
and most hostile environment
the loveliness is everywhere
at the turning of a corner
in the eyes
and on the lips
of a stranger
in the emptiest areas
with no place for hope
and only death
to invite the heart
the loveliness is everywhere
it emerges
incomprehensible
inexplicable
it rises in its own reality
and what we must learn is
how to receive it
into ours.

Kenneth White