Shunryu Suzuki student, prolific writer and teacher - sociology and theology - Steve Tipton is a close old friend. But he just learned that Katrinka and I got married here in Sanur three years ago. So he sent a poem. Thanks Steve!
Friends to Wed
At
times two people waiting for each other
Make
up a silent poem waiting to be song.
Clear-eyed
words then pause, turn toward music
From
an unseen source, an intuition longing
To
incarnate airy knowledge and let it dance,
Set
free to touch, to taste, by harmony itself
Heartfelt,
and wound with scented symmetry
In
what was wavy sonant space before this
Graceful
measure brought senses to its sound.
ST
9/2019