Our poet Colin Hopkirk muses “Are prayers portals? It’s a stretch, maybe.” But a prayer wheel might be a portal. Nice to think of Colin trekking round Ladakh, honouring prayer flags and turning prayer wheels, blessing the countryside and releasing mantras into the heavens; however: “I bought a book in my local Oxfam bookshop recently, an exhibition catalogue of religious/belief system objects. One of these was a Buddhist prayer wheel, made from a beer can and wood.” Day 733 of the Daily Poems … Spin the wheel. Worth a try.
Beer can prayer-wheel
we don’t need much
through repetition
through invocation
we could (couldn’t we?)
knock something up
spin the wheel
see if it works
Colin Hopkirk
