Over cherry blossoms white clouds over clouds the deep sky over cherry blossoms over clouds over the sky I can climb on forever once in spring I with God had a quiet talk.
Shuntaro Tanikawa has won every significant award for literature in Japan.
He has published over 60 works of poetry and they are translated in 15 different languages.
He is Japan's foremost living poet.
Tanikawa brings another consciousness in focus in his work; His poem above is an example of the simplicity of that consciousness yet it's deeply connected within me.
It's refreshing to sense an awareness that I have conveniently hidden in fear.
Thoughts of nature and the life that expresses itself in it, is a mirror of my inner world.
Shuntaro lives physically to share that expression.
Every spring the cherry blossoms display their beauty with color and form.
The clouds form shapes of mountains and animals and the sky is a canvas for their creations.
Sitting quietly I can feel the vibration of their consciousness and I begin to vibrate with them.
That overwhelming connection is the language of the universe.
It is the voice of God and I speak, not with words but in silence.
My thoughts echo through time and space and I found myself riding the tale of eternity.
I am one with the tale, the silence and myself.
Spring is knocking on my door, I'll answer in this now.
I'll drop my physical form and blend in with the blossoms and leaves.
I'll jump from cloud to cloud and fall in the arms of the sky.
I'll talk to God quietly and know I am his voice.
I can climb forever and live in the beauty of the moment.