STAUNIN STANES
Thir are those
Wha seek meanin
In the alignment
O staunin stanes.
Wha line up
The stars an mune
An track the shaddies
Imprintit by the sun.
Thir are ithers
Wha accept a mystery
Fir whit it is,
Beyon an answer,
Perhaps it is eneuch
To staun an look
Within these places.
The stanes become
Question merks
Embedded in
The deep pages
O the lanscape.
Sumtimes, wi can
Dig too deep,
An tapple too
Mony unknowns.
This is space eneuch
Tae leave alane,
Tae wunner an dream,
As wi search
Fir yon lane stane
We ken is oot there,
But is alwise
Jist oot o reach.
Derek Ross
I am a photographer/ poet from Dumfries in South West Scotland. I concentrate on minimalist images and prefer using an iPhone these days. As far as my writing is concerned, I usually write short poems (some in Scots dialect), hence my interest in haiku and related forms.
I think that’s beautiful. Poignant and wise. The more we seek ‘meaning’ and ‘understanding’, the more we miss the point. Like the story about the pupil asking his teacher what the Tao was – the Tao being, roughly put, the ultimate secret of life. “Everyday life is the Tao,” replied the teacher. “How then,” asked the pupil, “do we get into accord with the Tao?” “If you try to get into accord with it,” came the reply, “you will get away from it.”
Being interested in studying Haiku, you can’t help but end up exploring Japanese/Chinese philosophy. I was particularly struck by the Tao, perhaps it influences some of my work without me being really conscious about it 🙏🏻
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Love the poem, Derek – and the photos are wonderful. I can almost feel how the stone would be under my hand.
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Thanks again. These are the Callanish Stones. I thought of them after reading about you walking to that cairn in your recent post.
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They are on my bucket list, Derek. Hoping that I might still get there.
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I enjoyed the poem, and the photographs are very striking with the gray textured stones against the cloud-textured sky.
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Wonderful photos, Derek… and I agree, sometimes it enough just to stand in wonder.
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Reblogged this on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo and commented:
Meet Derek Ross… and the standing stones of Callanish…
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I think that’s beautiful. Poignant and wise. The more we seek ‘meaning’ and ‘understanding’, the more we miss the point. Like the story about the pupil asking his teacher what the Tao was – the Tao being, roughly put, the ultimate secret of life. “Everyday life is the Tao,” replied the teacher. “How then,” asked the pupil, “do we get into accord with the Tao?” “If you try to get into accord with it,” came the reply, “you will get away from it.”
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Being interested in studying Haiku, you can’t help but end up exploring Japanese/Chinese philosophy. I was particularly struck by the Tao, perhaps it influences some of my work without me being really conscious about it 🙏🏻
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Your lines here –
“Thir are ithers
Wha accept a mystery
Fir whit it is,
Beyon an answer,”
– are very much the spirit of the Tao.
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