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In Pursuit of the Sublime Poetry Project:

Poems for Travelers & Seekers

of Wisdom, Beauty, Truth, Wonder

& the Sublime

 

 

The Fabled Land of the Three Frontiers

· A Poem in Prose out of the Wakhan Corridor ·

“From dark to dawn and dawn to dark again. At night, he wakes in dark and, straining his face against the hood, he believes he sees starlight. Dawn, and they have him up on his feet, walking. Finally, on that afternoon, they reach the foot of the snow mountains. The fabled land of the three frontiers, where the Pamirs and the Karakorum meet the Hindu Kush at the westernmost end of the Himalaya on the roof of the world and the mightiest mountain ranges on earth wed and become one.

Their journey has ended, though his odyssey into the frontier of his true country has only begun.”

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The Kora-Walkers of the High Plateau

· A Poem Out of Tibet ·

“Outside night has descended upon the high plateau. Beyond the adobe walls of our yard, the thirteen black-haired yaks huddle in the pen, and their warm bright breath exudes from their dark shaggy bodies and fumes from their nostrils in the cold bare moonlight.”

So begins “The Kora-Walkers of the High Plateau,” a poem out of Kham, sung by Lobsang the yak-herd and bard of Manigango and inspired by Joseph’s travels in Tibet. The poem is excerpted from the story”Lobsang and the Snow Lioness,” which is also live at The Land West of Long Mountain Project.

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The Journey

· A Poem by Mary Oliver ·

“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. ‘Mend my life!’ each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do…”

In the second issue of “In Pursuit of the Sublime,” a poetry project by The Land West of Long Mountain, we read Mary Oliver’s celebrated poem “The Journey” for the fierce beauty of its language and the profound power of its insight. Both wise and inspiring, but never coddling, “The Journey” is a poem that can help guide us all, both along the roads of the world and through the greater journey of life. The poem is presented alongside photography from Joseph’s own travels and journeys in Asia.

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In Pursuit of the Sublime

· A Poetry Project out of the Land West of Long Mountain ·

In this first edition of “In Pursuit of the Sublime Poetry Project,” we journey with Kahlil Gibran’s seeker up the eternal holy mountain, four times through the course of three thousand years, in pursuit of God. Along our journey, we learn about the meaning of patience and perseverance and about the true relationship between life and Life’s Creator. In this way, we unearth both wisdom of the heart and fulfillment of the spirit, and we come to discover joy, to experience the divine and to behold the beauty of creation everywhere on earth.

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