The Answer Is a Circle

by Tony Henderson

The poems gathered here were written during the years 1965 to 1967, while

travelling in the Far East, mostly, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. The more

extended narrative was written in the latter years of the 60s, with additions

in the early seventies. Briefly, I went to Japan to seek confirmation of

my own realised truth.

The search did not reveal any one particular individual who reflected the

genuineness of what I felt to be true, but in the motley of events and

meetings with the common man, or in the main, common woman, I discerned

that the brightest exponents of that truth could be found in the myriad

unknown folk who spend their days following ordinary roles.

These were the ones accepting sadness from their particularised past and

who gladdened at the least beneficial smile from what is variously termed

The Mother, The Creator, the Cosmic Self... etc.

Only humanity viewed as a whole I found could confirm the totality of the

truth as it unrolled in multifold forms, each individual a witness, pointing

at the supreme mystery beyond the highest reaches of my mind.

151 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 1997