Cosmic Calling

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             The cosmos calls us when our day is done
             as gazes turn above to starry spheres,
             concealed in presence of the sovereign sun,
             while once again the dark of night appears.

             As gazes turn above to starry spheres
             where reigning moonbeams serve to light the way
             while once again the dark of night appears,
             we muse on how what’s passing cannot stay.

             Where reigning moonbeams serve to light the way,
             the twinkling heavens glory in their prime.
             We muse on how what’s passing cannot stay,
             within a moment of illusive time.

             The twinkling heavens glory in their prime,
             concealed in presence of the sovereign sun,
             within a moment of illusive time—
             the cosmos calls us when our day is done.



             ~ Harley White



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The poem is a pantoum… A pantoum is a poem in a fixed form, consisting of a varying number of four-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated to form the first and third lines of the succeeding stanza, with the first and third lines of the first stanza forming the second and fourth of the last stanza, but in reverse order, so that the opening and closing lines of the poem are identical.

Some inspiration derived from the teachings and writings of Nichiren Daishōnin…

Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō means to devote our lives to and found them on (Nam[u]) the Utterness of the Dharma (Myōhō) [entirety of existence, enlightenment and unenlightenment] permeated by the underlying white lotus flower-like mechanism of the interdependence of cause, concomitancy and effect (Renge) in its whereabouts of the ten [psychological] realms of dharmas [which is every possible psychological wavelength] (Kyō).

The reason that we continually recite Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō

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