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His Poems Are From An Empty Mind
Michael Harbour combines his philosophical knowledge with verse
We are so blessed to have written conversations in book form to choose from. There are so many books of poems available online as eBooks and print that you can never run out of reading someone’s verses. I randomly chose a poetry book to read this month(I chose quite a few), and am proud to present Michael Harbour’s Poems From An Empty Mind.
Does a raindrop become part of the swollen
river or is the swollen river a series of raindrops?~From “Raindrop”
The very first poem is “No Mind”, where the speaker of the poem is “undisturbed by the elements’ motions”, pulled deeper into sweet nothingness with no wants for anything. Told poetically, we quickly get to the punch line:
Only ebbs and flows with the tides
No name, no mind…
I read that small poem over and over a few times. The first time silently, in my mind, even though the stress of work and my own illness clouded my thoughts. After a second reading aloud, it became a mantra, a practice — a…
