Poetry
“In our daily lives we experience enormous amounts of disorder and confusion.
And what poetry says to us is, ‘turn your confusion, turn your world into words. Take it outside yourself, into language.'”
Gregory Orr
Month: May 2020
Good bye
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes
Because those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation
– Rumi
NOTHING IS LOST
All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense.
Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happens to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost.
This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience.
Black
Black is our dark side
we hide inside our white skins
We cast our pain on those dark
The slaves we keep locked up inside ourselves
We think if we can erase them from our planet
we don’t have to look at our own evil inside
What are we so afraid of? Their power, their strengths,
the soulful beauty that comes from the riches of this earth
The black man and black woman are our birth mothers and fathers
We cannot cast them aside…love them and caress their vulnerable souls
Overcome your fear of darkness
Show courage and stand in for their pain and hurt
Embrace our black brothers and sisters as if they are a piece of ourselves….because they are.
Unbecoming
The journey here on earth isn’t about becoming. It’s unbecoming. Peeling away everything that is not us. Unveiling ourselves of our cultural, racial, gender, even our personality biases. And finally seeing ourselves as…we…really…are. And then, being delightfully yourself.
This Virus
This virus yells….look at yourselves. Look at who you have become. Is that who you want to be?
Feel and smell your breathe through your mask. Taste yourself like others taste you. Feel the fire that you breathe. Does it nurture or burn down this earth?
See what you look like all day long on Zoom. This is how everyone sees you. How do you look to others? What do your eyes say? Do you see love in your eyes or sadness or anger or nothing? How does your mouth move as you talk? Do you see disgust or arrogance in your grin or moments of joy, empathy or warmth? See your whole face. Are you present or are you distracted and just feigning interest?
Those moments, on your face. Those moments, they change people. For good or bad.
Sit with yourself this virus screams. What does it feel like to be alone with you?
See who you are and ask, who are you? How are you living? How are you loving? Can you fly, crawl or swim? Can you imagine something better then your past?
How many resources are you using from this earth? How are you treating this earth? These animals; sentient beings? These life giving plants? These complicated people? Yourself?
Stop and reflect on who you are and what you do, human! Stop, now, right now.
The virus yells. Now is all you have! For death comes tomorrow.
Madness
Love is madness, absolute madness
Like a helpless puppet on a string
We attempt to make choices
fooling ourselves
in believing so we cling
To the thought that we can push against this force
Is sheer madness once again
Don’t deny loves mystical power
And release that critical voice
Turn yourself over to what you can’t understand
Surrender your soul to a love that wasn’t planned
Relationships
“Relationship are truly sacred, not in the superficial meaning of being high in value, but that they call upon infinite and mysterious depths in ourselves and in the very nature of things. And in those depths lay a mystery called the heart- not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery in the spiritual sense: unfathomable, beyond manipulation, showing traces of the finger of God at work.” Thomas Moore
Imagination
“Slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living and loving then major efforts of change. As a result, deep changes in life follows movements in imagination.” Thomas Moore
Live Full On
There’s no such things as closure- in death, in relationships-
The truth just leaves you cold
Then you realize…all that matters is the journey you’ve been on and everything you’ve been through.
Then you see a different truth, a new truth
You have to live your life full-on, until you run out of breath, whatever the consequences
Because what you don’t realize is that your journey is only just beginning
White Line