The Land Mind of The Body

I have tilled the Soil...

with push from outside

and resistance besides

sometimes hand in hand...

a cartography of the Self

I have turned in distress

page by page tracing

the compost of an

essence that drains

like tea into the veins 'n

sinews of Experience...

tributary of a brain

that bends and swerves

like all those proverbial

winding country roads...

and somewhere houses

a mind, a soul, a light

that Wisdom drives me

to seek out and find...

#OldWords #Challenge

* I almost went with the Bible... but instead pulled off of my book shelf a beautiful Harvard Classics Collector's Edition volume of words of Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. I turned at random to page149, at the bottom found this, and ran with it:

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus: "The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own mind."