The First Wave & Nothing More Poem by Mark Heathcote

A wave has travelled across the world
reached shore in a cathartic release
in repetition followed & submerged
the outcome of each is a masterpiece.

A Japanese gardener experiences the universe
as White foaming cherry blossoms fall
and swirl around his feet and disperse
inside him, all oceans calm their wild squalls.

A wave has travelled across the world
and for a moment, it's a migrating bird
coming ashore as the horizon clears
there is a colliding of two hemispheres.

Hopeless acts of finding lesser-known kingdoms
the Japanese gardener knows he is the stone
at the centre, where everything else ripples
knows, travelling any further windblown.

Already-know's he's home on the one-shore
and that all journeys start from within him
no one else can rise above or submerge him
his wave was the first wave & nothing more.