THE POEM OF THE STONE
Dedicated to Intent Blog
A female friend of mine made a beautiful painting called: 'Piling Stones'. The moment she showed it to me, I remembered a beautiful poem, written by a Dutch poet, I read some five years ago, while I was introduced to the labyrinth.
For five years now it has proven to me to be a profound truth in all it's simplicity. All my experiences of the past five years were fruits, fruits of seeds I sewed long, long time ago. And this website is one big expression of this, in gratitude.
I have been blogging at the Intent Blog of Deepak Chopra:
http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/02/holistic_relati.html
for more than three years and made many online friends.
The link hereabove shows how wonderful our conversations were and how much creativity can be reached in unity. Unity meaning that creativity can be found in science, in art, in religion, in philosophy, combining it into one holistic experience.
DK Matai has been a great creative guide and made a beautiful compilation of Holistic creativity here:
We piled some stones together :).
Therefore I made a translation of the Dutch poem into the English language and would like to dedicate this to the people of Intent Blog, together with a few pictures of the painting:
Here is a picture of the painting hanging on the wall in my computer room:
Picture painted by Marian Learbuch
2008
And here is a digital canvassing I did on my computer, where I added a border with sea shells:
And hereunder the poem:
The stone
WE moved a stone
In a river on earth
The water flows different there
Than before
One cannot stop
The stream of a river
Water always finds
Its way around
Maybe, once filled
By snow and rain
The river takes
OUR shingles with it
To let it then rest
Worn out smoothly and roundly
In the shelter of the sea
WE moved a stone
In a river on earth
Now We know that
WE will never be forgotten
WE delivered the proof
Of OUR existence
By moving that one stone
The stream will never
Move the same way again……
Original Dutch version: Bram Vermeulen
