halfway to blossoming: scribbles of a mind in slumber

By Tom Weber

During our seemingly endless exploration of reality we sometimes stumble upon something beautiful. A gift so rare and so stunning that it illuminates the entire path ahead of us. In his first English poetry collection, Tom Weber offers his readers one such present. Poems emerging from a brief gap in existence, words shimmering in the mild light of creation. All the while a mysterious hibiscus flower slowly blossoms in the shade of a secret liaison.

Discover this short, but powerful poetry collection in all its mesmerising colours.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jan 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9783750457393

Tom Weber

Tom Weber, 1974 in Bottrop geboren, studierte Rechtswissenschaften und arbeitet heute im Bereich Medien- und Urheberrecht. Von Tom Weber ist bereits Tod im Arbeitsamt erschienen.

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contents

sip

out of place

a writer‘s birthday card

A.

try harder

boo

know-it-alls

never back down

to william blake

over aleppo skies

the wasteland

srebrenica

gaps

acknowledgment

bi5anz IO

soliloquy

holiday on anthemoessa

mountain song

the poet‘s calling

V

still for you but it‘s me now

before awakening

being

dawn

cypher

weather

coincidence

mirage

breath

drop

hug

breeze

vow

warmth

tip

bardo

In Tibetan Buddhism a period of transition. The most well-known bardos are

kyenay bardo (the bardo of birth and this life)

milam bardo (the bardo of dreams)

samten bardo (the bardo of meditation)

chikhai bardo (the bardo of the moment of death)

chönyi bardo (the bardo of the luminosity of the true nature)

sidpa bardo (the bardo of becoming or transmigration)

However, generally speaking any period of transition is regarded as a bardo

māra

Buddhist demon described by Nyanaponika Thera as the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment.

Māra makes use of five emotions (called arrows)