shinrinyoku

a japanese haibun

haibun is a poetic prose that allows one to answer questions while providing a fresh perspective, through a lens that focuses on spirituality, nature and landscape.

shinrinyoku

(n.) forest bath

tapestries of landforms

dancing beyond skies

in the great depths of

lush greens; of visionaries

of flourishing forests

ateliers of a meditative past

enclosed by the roughened cusps,

hands of mother nature that i sense,

and smell slight whiffs of ripening

yuzu and satsuma mandarin,

citrusy aromas dancing in

the midst of a mōri, so elegantly

as is with roofs

so thatched and tiled

earthened with time

so serene, a winding stone

path hidden amidst the lush

nestled, secluded across

moss-hugged land, foliage

taste this air, breeze on skin,

perhaps i shall let gods arise,

shinto, because for

that the spirits are not

separate from nature, but in

it, in the humidity of the trees,

the reflecting light on rocks,

the mistful breeze,

the fluent waterfall,

be earthed, grounded with shelters by

shokūnins, artisans between reality

and beds of earth,

become nurtured in understanding

at not the seven wonders,

but the eighth: the spirit in the moss,

the light on the lake.