poetic ruminations
The poems gathered here were written during the years 1965 to 1967, while travelling in the Far East, mostly, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. The more extended narrative was written in the latter years of the 60s, with additions in the early seventies. Briefly, I went to Japan to seek confirmation of my own realised truth.
The search did not reveal any one particular individual who reflected the genuineness of what I felt to be true, but in the motley of events and meetings with the common man, or in the main, common woman, I discerned that the brightest exponents of that truth could be found in the myriad unknown folk who spend their days following ordinary roles.
These were the ones accepting sadness from their particularised past and who gladdened at the least beneficial smile from what is variously termed The Mother, The Creator, the Cosmic Self... etc.
Only humanity viewed as a whole I found could confirm the totality of the truth as it unrolled in multifold forms, each individual a witness, pointing at the supreme mystery beyond the highest reaches of my mind.
Tony Henderson Hong Kong 1997.