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Tranströmer, Tomas - Sailor's Tale
Identifier
025695
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Sailor's Tale [translated by Robert Bly
There are stark winter days when the sea has links
to the mountain areas, hunched over in feathery grayness,
blue for a moment, and then the waves for hours are like pale
lynxes, trying to get a grip on the gravelly shore.
On a day like that wrecks leave the sea and go looking for
their owners, surrounded by noise in the city, and drowned
crews blow toward land, more delicate than pipe smoke.
[In the Far North the real lynx walks, with sharpened claws
and dream eyes. In the Far North where the day
lives in a pit night and day.
There the sole survivor sits by the furnace
of the Northern Lights, and listens to the music
coming from the men frozen to death.)
The source of the experience
Tranströmer, TomasConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Being left handedBelieving in the spiritual world
LOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am