…a new learning…

A soft foot

As with another eye

   I see the moor,

its quiet folds

   that need no glance from me,

its hues of earth and sky

   so naturally disposed.

I step with care,

I stand long moments there

   to feel the reverence of being

      and the pleasure of my spirit

      stepping free of me

and leaving unfamiliar stillness

   in my heart

   and in my mind,

a new learning.

I will walk this moor again,

   and fill myself again with calming joys.

November 9, 2016

“A soft foot” was published January 23, 2018, in my second collection of 47 poems, Seeing far: Selected poems, now for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

Inspired by “The Moor” by the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas (1913-2000). Thomas recounted his passage on the moor—“…I entered it on soft foot…”—when he felt a “…stillness of the heart’s passions…” I imagined a respectful conception of a quiet moor, and a quiet time of solitary exploration and a gift of harmonious perceptions. I was not disappointed. I walked the walk.

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