And this sequence ends with a poem called "Regarding Wave."
This is perhaps the most difficult of these poems.
The Hindu and Buddhist conception of creation
is that of a continuous creation.
If someone were to ask them the old stock missionary question,
who created the world?
Where did it all start?
Hindus and Buddhists would not be able to answer,
because they do not conceive of the world
as having been created in time, as an object then
to sort of wear out or something.
They see it as a continuing thing,
which is the waves of energy or the waves of the dance.
And this can be seen as sound sometimes,
or it can be seen as heat, or it can be seen as light,
or it can be seen as consciousness itself.
According to one Hindu system, Brahma--
when he's not in a trance--
opens his mouth, and the goddess Voice comes out.
Voice or Vac.
She is the consciousness in all things
and the existing energy in all things,
hence voice is very important in India.
And the Indian theories of poetry
are all very aware of this.
And Vac is the muse, voice, the goddess voice.
Vac is the muse in India.
Also, perhaps better known as the muse
under another name, Sarasvati, which means
literally the flowing one.
They say the natural poetry of the planet
is the sound of flowing water and the wind blowing
in the trees.
"Regarding Wave."
The voice of the Dharma.
The voice now.
A shimmering bell through all.
Every hill, still.
Every tree alive.
Every leaf.
All the slopes flow.
Old woods, new seedlings, tall grasses plumes.
Dark hollows, peaks of light.
Wind stirs the cool side.
Each leaf living.
All the hills.
The voice is a wife to him still.
Om.
Ah.
Hum.