Sidewalk Meditation
I walk on these sidewalks
And I feel the sky evaporate beneath my
feet
I detach from these feelings of falling
into nothingness
While I am feeling myself falling
I walk across the sky
As I feel the boundaries of
non-attachment
I detach from these feelings of
non-attachment
Like a bird who is free from the
limitations of feathers
I soar across the Universe
While I feel myself being released from
time and space
I detach from these feelings about this
Universe as home
Like a hobo whose only home is being on
the road
I write poems about people's need for
sidewalks
Like Han Shan's jokes about wasp's
wings
Freedom is like a childhood rhyme about
sidewalks
Step on a crack and break your back but
don't fall through
I fell through a crack in the sidewalk
And almost broke my back
The pain of enduring the journey on a
common thoroughfare
Never exceeded the bliss of knowingness
in spite of feelings
I walk on these sidewalks
And over on the grass where dandelions
grow
The illusion of freedom is not a
feeling
But I feel it anyway
A-ho!
Oliver Loveday © September 9, 2014
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“Astral Sidewalk”
Pencil, conté crayon, charcoal,
pastel, oil pastel, watercolor and ink
12 x 9 inches | 30.5 x 22.9 cm | 50 lb
acid free Canson
November 8, 2013
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