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p r o f i l e s i n s t i l l n e s s
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o f p o e t s t o u c h e d b y g r a c e

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feature
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one

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Leslie Giddens

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he skywalks . . .

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cloud

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mountain
path

                        straight
                        to
                        the
                        sky

                        cloud
                        of
                        presence

clap

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pilgrim
line

                        sono-
                        rous
                        chant-
                        ing

cloud
speak

clap

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                        round
                        the
                        living

                        and
                        the
                        dead

                         fills
                         the
                         temple

bell

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                        rising
                        sun

                        where
                        is
                        the
                        mountain

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Leslie Giddens in his own words . . .

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Born 1929. Started writing haiku & tanka since
my retirement in 1994. I love the tension between Mies van der Roes'
"less is more" and Donatella Versace's "Less is less and less."

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                               Homage to Santoka

                        you walked from one temple
                        shrine to another
                        distant mountains in your eyes
                        behind them the farther
                        ranges of your silence

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                        after looking long
                        at the ongoing sky
                        the silence reaches my roots
                        and deeper still the voices
                        of underground rivers

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                        all winter the surf
                        echoes        inside
                        locked beach huts

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                        you said rest in me
                        and I will deepen
                        my rest in you:
                        but I never expected
                        such a vast world of stillness

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f i n i s

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thank you Leslie for sharing your poems

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if you have enjoyed the small selection of Leslie's poetry presented
in this first feature of profiles in stillness on dew-on-line,
you may be pleased to know that you will be able to read more
of this sensitive poet's work in still 2 three, still 3 one,
still 3 two, still 3 three, still 3 four, still 4 one and still 4 three.

none of the work featured in this section has appeared in still.

these editions of still are available from
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on still's website

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