“A longing to wander tears my heart, when I ear trees rustling in the wind at evening”
“Veins of Life” is a poetic adaptation of a passage from Hermann Hesse’s Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte (Trees: Reflections and Poems) that celebrates life and nature. At the center of the story is Sayuri, who yearns to reconnect with her inner self. This longing brings her back to the forest of her childhood memories and dreams.
Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out
someone has written
something new
in the ashes of your life.
You are not leaving.
Even as the light fades quickly now,
you are arriving.
David Whyte
from “The Journey”
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
David Whyte
From “The Journey”
“David Whyte makes the reading of poetry a matter of life and death.”
— Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides
An ElephantTribe.org inspirational film production using part of David Whyte’s poem “The Journey” – set in silent film style spanning time and space of humanity’s most important pillar: Nature. Enhanced with music composed and played by Moby.
Spanning the realm of nature and the pulsating life of the 21st century, Irish Poet and Philosopher David Whyte shares his profound insights in a beautiful written poem set in different time in this production by ElephantTribe.org.
