The Mind of All Beings

A Poem by Kenneth Rose

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, April 2, 2020, Kenneth Rose

It shines like sunlight on a cool May morning
the mind of all beings
although it’s infinitely more delicate
like wings of bees in impossibly thin air

It pulses with serene knowing
the mind of all beings
glowing on top of this stilled body
sitting by the green wall of a hill 
sprouting fresh grass as green 
as green itself

Precisely aimed lines 
splay out from
the mind of all beings
containing beaded chains 
of throbbing light 
each containing a self-absorbed 
universe teeming with philosophers 
wars, woes, saints, and saving truths

It tranquilizes the brain’s thoughts
the mind of all beings
while dreaming countless universes
in a contemplative’s calm 
while walking
around a cloistered garden
on a May morning sometime else

It hums the language of every species
the mind of all beings
while teaching us 
to dodge thought’s missiles
incoming from all directions
so that we might mount the slope
beyond which we will turn around 
to see where we’ve been
and remember 
with calm surprise and delight 
that 

we are 
the mind of all beings

May 7, 2020

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Selected from a forthcoming collection of my recent poetry, Ray of Blue: Poems from the Higher Seeing

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