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"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive 
before words, they are cast 

in the lines, like some divination, 
hexagrams etched, embedded
in the yin and yang

of strangely falling
scattered wisdom - thought, 
then written, then read, then spoken

mystically spelled, 
felt in the soul, like poetry,
strange and tercet

clearly
the simple 
now understood, 

marked over multiple choice
under and around,
all calling the heard, 

within, 

the living
synchronicity
rising like breath

rising like stars
in a dark long night 
undressing the veiled

unveiling the myst,
heavenly bodies, 
work as 1,

the fiery sun, the missed
caressing the cool luminescent
lake swimming moon
 
kissed in eclipse, 
pearls form, in dimensions 
above, so below

6 wings oscillating like lines
burning transparency like seraphim
following homeless infants to no home

broken lines, 
faces upturned, all
lost in the desert of woe,

their cherubic thoughts 
transmitting prayers,
like hungry war cries

the ways, many, like words
chartered numbers, all, forever
are known by the unknown,

that 1 number, the manifest known,
that luck dragon, fathomless source,
like a Lion walking a forgotten ocean

opening minds
like cavern doors
labyrinthine leviathan reaching 

halls of shadow 
and winding around 
cloak worn devotion, 

a universe unfolding in the origami folds
of a paladin sweeping the floor 
with metanoia and royal redamancy

penetrate through the skin
beyond mind ticking like a bomb, 
the thick and the thin,

where inner truth 
like a bull 
takes its stand

to something foreign 
universal within, eyed as
something, more, 

slightly off-kilter
new and peculiar, 
something, 

untouchable,
3 lines, unbroken, 
doubled within 6, 

outright, the lines 
boldly drawn, 
The Creative, the source

words and thoughts
like a game of knuckles 
before styx thrown up in the air 

fall and held captive, become
something else transformed, feelings,
to be transcribed, as if in odd cuneiform

something, much higher
in translation, ataraxia an odyssey
to be further explored 

like words
and thoughts
in a Book of Changes

The Creative, 
the force,
older, much ancient

than all 
those other books 
bandied as better informed

I Ching
unusual clarity
relevance pinned and unpinned

in the irrelevant
forever changing
relevant flow of all things

10 Wings 


(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)




“Thus, in all his transactions the superior man 
Carefully considers the beginning.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“Sheng/Pushing Upward, Ascension.
Within the earth, wood grows:
The image of PUSHING UPWARD.
Thus, the superior man of devoted character
Heaps up small things
In order to achieve something high and great.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“The dark force possesses beauty but veils it. 
So must a man be when entering the service of a king.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“The superior man is on his guard against what is not yet in sight
And on the alert for what is not yet within hearing …”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“Through resoluteness one is certain to encounter something.
Hence there follows the hexagram of COMING TO MEET.” 
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“K’uei/Opposition
Above, fire; below, the lake:
The image of OPPOSITION.
Thus amid all fellowship
The superior man retains his individuality.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)



“K’an means something deeply mysterious …”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“Heaven has the same direction of movement as fire, 
Yet it is different from fire …” 
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“The fate of fire depends on wood; as long as there is wood
below, the fire burns above …”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“… flowing water, which is not afraid of any dangerous place,
 plunges over cliffs and fills up the pits that lie in its course …”(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“As water pours down from heaven, so fire flames up from the earth.”(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“Water flows on uninterruptedly and reaches its goal: The image 
Of the Abysmal repeated.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“T’ai /Peace
No plain not followed by a slope.
No going not followed by a return.
He who remains persevering in danger 
Is without blame.
Do not complain about this truth; 
Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“… if one is intent on retaining his clarity of mind, 
good fortune will come from this grief. For here we are dealing
not with a passing mood, as in the nine in the third place
but with a real change of heart.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)


“Confucius says … Life leads the thoughtful man on a path
of many windings. 
Now the course is checked, now it runs straight again. 
Here winged thoughts may pour freely forth in words, 
There the heavy burden of knowledge must be shut away
In silence. 
But when two people are at one in their inmost hearts,
They shatter even the strength of iron and bronze.”
(The I Ching or Book of Changes)











(1) 1	 Qián: The Creative (Force, Strong Action, The Key, God)
(2) 61 Zhong Fú: Inner Truth (Inner Trust, Center Returning)
(3) 51 Zhèn: The Shaking (The Arousing, Shock, Thunder)
(4) 46 Sheng: Pushing Upwards (Ascending)
(5) 2  Kun: The Receptive (Field, Acquiescence, The Flow)
(6) 44 Gòu: Coming to Meet (Meeting, Coupling)
(7) 11 Tài: Peace (Greatness, Pervading, Smooth Going)
(8) 58 Tui/Dui: The Joyous (Open, Exchange, the Joyous Lake)
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