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THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD

BOOKS BY DAVID WHYTE

POETRY

Songs for Coming Home

Where Many Rivers Meet

Fire in the Earth

The House of Belonging

Everything is Waiting for You

River Flow: New & Selected Poems

Pilgrim

The Sea in You:

Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love

PROSE

The Heart Aroused:
Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Crossing the Unknown Sea:
Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

The Three Marriages:
Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

Consolations:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

THE BELL
and
THE BLACKBIRD

Poems by DAVID WHYTE

MANY RIVERS PRESS
LANGLEY, WASHINGTON

Many Rivers Press
PO Box 868
Langley, WA 98260
USA

Copyright 2018 David Whyte

All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be produced in any form without permission.

ISBN 978-1-932887-47-1

Library of Congress Control Number 2018939048

1st Printing: 2018

FOR
GAYLE KAREN KHO YOUNG WHYTE WITH LOVE

CONTENTS

[ I ]

COME WITH ME NOW

LOUGH INAGH

Come with me now,

along the

Western Way,

into deepest

Connemara,

through the valley

of the shadow,

not of death,

but of

the unconquerable

kingdom of life

we call Lough Inagh.

O love.

There is a door

beneath everything

youll walk right by

if you dont stop to look

with that troubled heart

and a loving eye.

Come with me now

under the clouds

and skies

that sail each day

from the ocean,

under the stone-light

of the mist-wreathed

tops, through

all the streams

of falling water

and all the shadowed

mountains

weve given the name

of Connemara.

O love.

There is a door

beneath everything

well walk right by

if we dont stop to look

with our troubled hearts

and a loving eye.

Come with me now,

along the

beckoning path,

silvered in mist

toward

the glimmering lake,

bring every grief

you have not said

and every tear

you have not shed

and every

sorrow youve

carried alone.

There is a door

beneath everything

well walk right by

if we dont stop to look

with our troubled hearts

and a loving eye.

Well arrive

in the song light

of evening

at the house

that stands

by the water,

watching

the wild geese

returning

all the length

of the shadowed lake.

There is a door

beneath everything

well walk right by

if we dont stop to look

with our troubled hearts

and a loving eye.

Come with me now,

on the path

that leads

to a tender

understanding,

walk beside me

on the beckoning way,

let the sun

and its rays

fall over your

shoulder

and the lake

respond

in kind,

filling your face

with reflected

light.

O love.

There is a door

beneath everything

well walk right by

if we dont stop to look

with our troubled hearts

and a loving eye.

Well arrive

in the song light

of evening

at the house of light

that stands by the lake

to find the welcome

weve always wanted,

and the way weve wanted

to follow to find it,

and beyond everything,

the faces we never

believed wed find

in the end.

O love.

There is a door

beneath everything

well walk right by

if we dont stop to look

with our troubled hearts

and a loving eye.

Come with me now,

along the

Western Way,

into deepest

Connemara,

through the valley

of the shadow,

not of death,

but of

the unconquerable

kingdom of life,

we call Lough Inagh.

[ II ]

JUST BEYOND YOURSELF

JUST BEYOND YOURSELF

Just beyond

yourself.

Its where

you need

to be.

Half a step

into

self-forgetting

and the rest

restored

by what

youll meet.

There is a road

always beckoning.

When you see

the two sides

of it

closing together

at that far horizon

and deep in

the foundations

of your own

heart

at exactly

the same

time,

thats how

you know

its the road

you

have

to follow.

Thats how

you know

its where

you

have

to go.

Thats how

you know

you have

to go.

Thats

how you know.

Just beyond

yourself,

its

where you

need to be.

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD

The sound

of a bell

still reverberating,

or a blackbird

calling

from a corner

of the

field.

Asking you

to wake

into this life

or inviting you

deeper

to one that waits.

Either way

takes courage,

either way wants you

to be nothing

but that self that

is no self at all,

wants you to walk

to the place

where you find

you already know

how to give

every last thing

away.

The approach

that is also

the meeting

itself,

without any

meeting

at all.

That radiance

you have always

carried with you

as you walk

both alone

and completely

accompanied

in friendship

by every corner

of the world

crying

Allelujah.

TWICE BLESSED

So that I stopped

there

and looked

into the waters

seeing not only

my reflected face

but the great sky

that framed

my lonely figure

and after a moment

I lifted my hands

and then my eyes

and I allowed myself

to be astonished

by the great

everywhere

calling to me

like an old

and unspoken

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