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
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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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