Category: poetry
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Community
The spiral of connection Perched little mammal About to meet a friend She doesn’t know them yet But she can tell She can tell she is already connected to them Perhaps not a big gamble since we all are But she can tell They are closer than they know And as always there is no Read more
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Drawing your attention
Letter from Love Dear Love, what would you have me know today about ATTENTION? Nature is all around you, love It relaxes you and makes you smile when you spend time drawing your attention to its beauty and its intelligence There is so much we can learn from it, its symmetry and its unconditional love Read more
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Here and now
Raft Teaching as a raft taking people from the shore of suffering to the shore of freedom When you reach the other shore, you can leave the raft behind When we reach the other shore, we realise we never left the shore we started from There is only one shore and we are already there Read more
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Poetry
WET PAIN Run, run darling Sometimes you cannot catch the train Wait, wait darling Sometimes you need to wipe away the rain Write, write darling Today what you need is to sit in the pain Free tree spiral The place you have in mind The mind you have in place Root tree branch Ground tree Read more
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Moon
Spectacular Dear Love, what will you have me know today about being spectacular? Everything is going to be okay, love, because everything is in this moment, you can see the shine in your pen’s ink, the dappled light dancing on the window, the colourful beads shaking through the air, the imperfection in the paint creating Read more
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End and Start
A few words for the humans I had the pleasure to work with for the past year and half: How do I feel? Peaceful and calm Sunny and free Grateful to be here today And elsewhere tomorrow What comes next, you ask? Life and its many surprises, I say ‘When you press the pause button Read more
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Approval
Composing the symphony of our lives To compose the symphony of yourself Must you know how to play instruments? It would certainly help But until then Use the sound of the waves in the ocean The chirping of the birds in the wind And the silence of when there is nothing to say Letter from Read more
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9
The date of our births Nine When enough is a neuf But together is softer Seconds in the morning when you see that I am here Days or less spent apart since moving to our new home Months of not carrying a human life but many more ways of bringing life into this world Life Read more
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The starting point
Getting there I know this is just a figure of speech But so much of the language we speak shapes the way we think, and vice versa That it makes me wonder Where are we trying to get to? To a place where we feel comfortable with the now? One day we open our eyes Read more
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On worthiness
Perfect! Not what you project of what it means But how I feel Not what society forces us to believe But how I am How you are Just the way you are No expectation about what to be or to become No strings attached to your behavior or worthiness Perfect Just the way you are Read more