The Boy on the Swing Surrounded by War Rubble Does Not Swing at All

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The poem was by vicky wilson, a participant in e our upia retreat this year. The last line, which is heart breaking, achieves a surplus of emotion and meaning that shouldn't be possible in a mere 17 syllables. How the poet has chosen a symbol of transcendent childhood joy and given it a devastating twist. I've read a lot of empty swing iko and hiku, about swings that were still. This was the only one with a child in it. And it is all the more sorrowful because of that. Of course, the assigned season word was swing for spring, a spring season word. That's what i wrote about that poem at the etreat

Clark Strand is an American author and lecturer on spirituality and religion. He is a former Zen Buddhist monk and was the first Senior Editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is also the author of many books including The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary and Seeds of a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey

In this episode, Eric and Clark discuss a few of his books in addition to his exploration of the many spiritual traditions.

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Clark Strand and I Discuss Haiku and Other Creative Spiritual Practices and …

His book, Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse
His exploration of many spiritual traditions
Self power and other power
The circular notion of spiritual life rather than linear notion of progress
How a bead/rosary practice represents the circular nature of spirituality
The “hour of God” or “hour of the wolf” when awake in the night
Haiku and the tradition and forms of this type of poetry
Translation of haiku is “playful verse”
How profound meanings can come through from this playful art from

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