Singing Bowl

by MALCOLM GUITE

Begin the song exactly where you are,
Remain within the world of which you’re made.
Call nothing common in the earth or air,

Accept it all and let it be for good.
Start with the very breath you breathe in now,
This moment’s pulse, this rhythm in your blood

And listen to it, ringing soft and low.
Stay with the music, words will come in time.
Slow down your breathing. Keep it deep and slow.

Become an open singing-bowl, whose chime
Is richness rising out of emptiness,
And timelessness resounding into time.

And when the heart is full of quietness
Begin the song exactly where you are.

http://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/the-singing-bowl-a-poem-and-a-new-book
You can hear him read this by going to this link

Malcolm read this at the Bloxham Faith and Literature festival and commented that if you put any objects into a singing bowl, it will not sing….

It is the emptiness that allows the song.