! Wordsworth A Fortune Poem by Michael Shepherd

I wonder if Wordsworth
noticed that if he stood
very still, aware of his body
from his toes up to his head

and looked at the host of
nodding daffodils, then the daffodils
disappear into the sense
of presence as if
they were he and he they

I hope he did

cos if he had to walk home
to recollect his emotion
in tranquillity instead
of standing in it
out there on perhaps a wet day

then he’d missed something i.e.
emotion in tranquillity recollected

Not to mention surrendering
the feeling he’d lost
something since his boyhood.

Try it yourself, it might
save a lot of walking and
trying the view from over there
instead of here

and now.



[Yes, Eckhart Tolle, it’s thanks to you again…]