Vikram Kolmannskog: The Garden Tantra

You’re Not Selfish

Though you think much of the time
along lines of I, me, mine,

though you feel apart 
from grass and pine,

you’re also a part 
of a whole 

or even more 
interpenetrated:

without any effortful will,
just standing still in this garden,

you constantly feed 
the sturdy pine facing you,

and the delicate leaves of grass 
crowding your feet,

and they feed you—
breathing in, breathing out.

The Cloud

See that cloud there?
Once it was here with me.

I found it in my tea. 
Then it found me.

When some drops form and fall
as snow or rain,

one will land on your parched forehead, 
make its way, a tiny river across your nose,

towards your parted lips.
A cool drop.

How do we taste now?

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From The Garden Tantra (published by Red River, 2023)

Vikram Kolmannskog, based in Oslo, Norway
Professor at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute, therapist and supervisor in private practice.

Contact details: www.Vikram.no / vikram@vikram.no