I wrote this poem after weeks spent swimming in Slovenian rivers back in May 2019… is anybody else missing their outdoor swims just now? So I will relive these moments through the poems – that’s what they’re for – and keep making apples. #slowtime #riverswim #poetlife TEXT READS:
Swimming in Slow Time
Drop a stone into Slow Time
& ride each ripple to the green water’s edge.
Forget which day of the week
is tomorrow – beauty anticipated is too
soon spoiled.
It is not for you to judge who has need
Of your gift –
To create in slow time is to be
an active part of The Abundance:
the apple tree does not discriminate
over who eats their fruit.
To immerse in Slow Time is
to sit by the sparkling riverbank
netting each mellifluous moment
as the diving birds & the wading birds
fish generously together.
When everybody takes only
what is needed
The whole world has enough.
This is the alchemy of Slow Time
made manifest in the world.
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