Lloyd Hofman of the Netherlands came to live in Auroville in 1988, at the age of 36. In his first nine years in Auroville he was a forest watchman at Fertile, later combining forest attendance with library work while living at Gaya community. He currently lives at Creativity and works as an editor of prose and poetry, from his writers workshop Avipro.

He studied 'I Ching' and poetry (in English and Spanish) for twenty years, brought out the book of poems “Between Seasons” and is finalizing a book on the I Ching. He is also interested in studies on media and language, such as by McLuhan and Calasso.

 

 

 

 

“Between Seasons” – Lloyd's poetry

Lloyd's Wiki Pages

You may contact him at: avipro@auroville.org.in  

Cabin

 

(I)

 

In his cabin he thinks

of his views on the world

as having seen too much

 

with memories turning

to fantasies and tales

on his forgotten selves.

 

He knows that he lives

at an end where affairs

will unwind without him

 

free in homelessness

where a soul inhabits

the world as one room.

 

(II)

 

When on arriving

there is still a sense

of transformation

 

a rush of changes

half understood

still moving in the blood

 

a different world

found in a pattern

of old ones made new.

 

Quiet

(I)

Forgetful

of my borrowed time

and at rest

with missing answers

nameless but

true as the gift

of a morning

for a first day.

Still …

Where, maker

of breezes that flow

as breezes do,

where to meet you?

(II)

Sometimes I move beyond

the fringes of my thoughts

and artificial space

at ease in not knowing,

not seeing myself, and

at one with the outcome.

Lazy afternoon

Suspending belief

my thoughts and deeds

flutter out of me

into a wider span

of mind's migrations.

I watch the rising,

vital hungers

and their deadline,

a cloudy turbulence

free of being me.

Where wood resounds

with hammer blows,

offices hum

and passing cars

have destinations.