THE  POEM  OF  THE  STONE

Dedicated to Intent Blog

A month ago, 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. We piled some stones together there :).

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