Poetry From the On Being Gathering — John Paul Lederach

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🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A series of haikus from peacemaker John Paul Lederach on the fourth day of our On Being Gathering. This year, we were thrilled to host our very first On Being Gathering — a four-day coming-together of the On Being community for reflection, conversation, and companionship — at the 1440 Multiversity in the redwoods of Scotts Valley, California. We greeted each day with verse from some of our most beloved poets — and now we’d like to share these delightful moments with all of you. Peacemaker and poet John Paul Lederach opened Monday with a series of haikus. John Paul Lederach is a senior fellow at Humanity United, a project of the Omidyar Foundation, and professor emeritus of International Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	Poetry reading framed the on-being gathering this year.
0:03.6	And we are so happy now to share these slices of beauty,
0:07.0	elation, and contemplation with you.
0:09.8	Here's how peacemaker and poet John Paul Letterock
0:13.1	opened our Monday morning.
0:16.6	Thank you.
0:19.4	I had no idea what Christo had in mind when she said
0:23.1	high coup Monday morning.
0:25.8	So this is titled Monday High Coos.
0:29.6	The story is told of the master Basho
0:33.1	and his disciple Kikaku.
0:36.7	Of the morning that Kikaku came back from the fields and said,
0:40.2	I have written a high coup.
0:43.2	And Basho invited him, they sat, and he read the high coup.
0:50.2	Take a pair of wings from a dragonfly.
0:57.1	You would make a pepper pod.
1:02.6	Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables, perfect high coup.
1:10.4	Basho said, this is not a high coup.
1:17.2	You killed the dragonfly.
1:22.4	The high coup is add a pair of wings to a pepper pod.
1:32.4	You would make a dragonfly.
1:40.2	Near the end of his life, Basho said,
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