Suchness

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I feel your suchness without knowing your name.

I crave to know more, to adorn you with name and story. 

My senses thirst for fractal arrays beyond an idle glance. 

I was born free of words that now tailor my thoughts, clothe my senses.

~

‘Suchness’ :

“1 :the quality or state of being such :essential or characteristic quality…

2 Buddhism :nameless and characterless reality in its ultimate nature — called also tathata, thusness”

— Merriam-Webster.com

A recent Ontheroad prompt has had me pondering ‘suchness’ and ‘free’ is this week’s theme for quadrilles at dVerse Poets Pub.

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

32 thoughts on “Suchness”

    1. Thanks Suzanne for your comment and post on suchness…. no Haiku for it yet…it certainly intrigued me…I find myself bouncing between a yearning for some kind of suchness experience and questioning what that might be or not be … in words and beyond words

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      1. You could call your piece a haibun 🙂 I’ve come across several haibun by Basho that don’t have haiku at the end. I think I will use one as inspiration for my next post. As for suchness – it is such an elusive concept I struggled with putting it into words too.

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