Saturday, September 7, 2024

New poem: "Diary of a Holistic Runner"

 

Diary of a Holistic Runner

 

I felt nostalgic the other day, and I didn’t

know what to do. And then it came to me

to read through my manuscript, THOUGHTS

IN MOTION: Diary of a Holistic Runner,

which I kept 35 years ago, from August 1, 1988

to January 8, 1989; and coming upon my entry,

“My Dream of a Ball of String,” dated Sunday,

August 7, 1988, I was instantly brought back

to that Work time in my life when I was deepest

in the heat of my becoming, the most intensely

transformative period of my life when I made

my inner and outer self into one self, whole

and complete, as every path in life impels

us to do; and I set my diary aside and reflected

on my running life, and out of the blue it came

to me that a life lived in full is the most satisfying

life that we can live, and my nostalgic feelings

disappeared and I put my big seven-hundred-page

diary away and went on with my day.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Friday, September 6, 2024

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