flower rest
for Ryuichi Sakamoto RIP
4 & 5 april , 2023
flowers
ringing
limpid
bells
in rain
adagio
in eye
drawing
the bow
of awareness,
mind’s horse
hair, over
dusk
taut
at the
bridge
on estuary,
may you
play the
instrument
of this
world,
tremble the
cosmos in
angled
beat
one last &
ever time,
friend to
the heard
& unheard,
moving your
fingers between
rests over the
keyboard of
waves
from
deep
blue
to the
bar,
deep
blue
to. the
bar
Copyright © 2023 Peter Le Baige. All Rights Reserved
Click on the link above to hear a reading of the poem. The accompanying music is from the piece ‘Mizu no Naka no Bagatelle’ from the 2009 album by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto titled ‘Playing the Piano’. Little Cat contributes some bubble-pops of purr.
Click on the link above to hear another reading of the poem to the more up-beat ‘Thousand Knives’
Ruru ki Te Ruru 
another fine poem and a great image of the temple garden which fascinated me in Kyoto
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Many thanks, Piers. One of my favourite gardens anywhere on the planet, seemed a better choice of geometries & colours and more expressive of his work than any conventional photo of the man. Plan to visit it again later this year.
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