Calligraphy

Approaching the paper void
the brush dares to touch down
enlivening the receptive ground
as the energy reverberates
through the black ink
each emerging line
fully nourishes its surroundings
like the vibrant vein of a leaf
and creates a temenos -
a sacred precinct -
of unseen power.

Illustration - Open

IN
Opening to the gifts of long practice
drawing all energies together
the brush-mind evokes
the stroke to come

Pause
In stillness, the moment of change
the mystery of renewal
the possible - known and unknown -
the brush poised

Out
From the source pressing outward
energizing arm-fingers-brush
the heart, firmly initiating the stroke,
becomes known

Illustration - Wind

Radiantly dark, the ink
suffusing the quivering brush
imbues each movement....

Enlivening broadly
probing deeply
the brush energizes
what lies below the paper's surface.

Thus depth and breadth
flow from each stroke
and nourish the fertile space

Illustration - Image

Naturally flowing
a river broadens
in the shallows

And deepens in the narrows -
The flow insistent, unbroken.

It's shifts when subtle
radiate vitality

When dramatic,
irrepressible vigor.

Illustration - Light

As if looking down from an airplane
see each brush stroke
on the white paper
as a lusty ridgeline -

Showing just above a white layer of clouds -

That expands downward
and broadly forms below the 'clouds'
a massive mountain
of robust power.

Illustration - Mountain

--The string drawing elements together
-- The fuse leading to explosion

And so brush, ink and paper
fully energized
thrust meaning into forms
shaped by the writers history,
mystery, intention, focus
expressing intimacy with the source
of oneself and the whole.

Illustration - Leap