In this multimedia video the music preceded the video, then the poems. After creating the video I remembered a poem, Sublime, I wrote when I asked a patient how she was feeling which reminded me of the Basho poem. The order of creating multimedia pieces is not fixed, but changes with the project.
Sublime.
She was feeling
as fine as frog’s hair.
When I attempted to grab
her intent, she slipped
beneath some lily pad
and I lost her hidden there.*
This sublime poem by Basho, translated by Allen Watts, is Japan’s most famous poem.
The old pond
A frog jumps in:
Plop.
- For other poems related to my time practicing psychiatry go to A Psychiatrist’s NoteBook