One thing I would love to teachHow to build a bonfire And we’ll all dance around it with freedom, with love And the fire spirits would join usAnd Brigid herself would step out of the flamesAnd give us her blessingOf freedom, Of love The future […]
All posts tagged: heart
A Million Different Sparks
I have been darkness and lightA dream and a nightmareI have gone to the ends of the world for myself so I knowHow to conquer itHow far will I go? They told me, you will be like lightening across the skySurrounding the world with a […]
The Trickiest Place There Is
I am longing for the sun, and the wind on my faceAnd speed, let’s rideI’ve longed to finish what I’ve startedI’ve dreamt a million dreams until nowThe only one that means anything is you I held a future in my hands but nowThe windstorm blows […]
Empowerment
Hand me the sceptre, the wand, and feel the sting of that thing To grasp, its right there just a little further And I I reach out my arm and I know I can touch it but yet Still it hovers there just of reach […]
Lovely Ideas like Flying Butterflies
We are not just one person, body and flesh and a mind Becoming so accustomed to being alive we don’t remember that it’s miraculousWith all of the little details like sunlight and water and fresh snowAnd the power of the earth on its rotation pulling […]
Being Called
Here comes the great soaring eagle of my lifeI am made of the sky, and I am the air Always wanting something higher My feet hold me here My mind does notI am a great exhaleA light melody and then a dark oneMaybe this version […]
We Just Want to Feel Something
When we begin to read a poem, I think we long for that feeling Something that tells us, you are more than you thinkYou are the aching loving pain of life, The tooth that hurts but feels good when pushed a certain wayThe first shining, […]
The Urgency to be Perfect
There is an urgency to be perfect here, and it breaks my heart To become so beautiful and perhaps immune to the harshness of the world Or to feel loved a little more, by the people one meets or the attractive stranger who has noticed […]
Strength
I held my closest friend this week at her mother’s funeral Part of a group suffering something so precious, a mother’s loveWe were all vulnerable together, at the chapel, one of God’s many housesThe light streamed through the painted glass windows, a holy presenceWe were […]
A Fecund Heart
We are merely players in fate’s whimsy Take time enough to dream To have a fecund heart Is to glide effortlessly through the tiresome depths of life’s trivialities
Fearless
One day when I surprised them, they asked, “Who are you?” I said: I am an evolutionary wonder 3.7 billion years in the making I’m fearless “Fearless?” ” Fearless.” Only love is real.
Tikkun
In a deep place, far inside A restfulness was disturbed A small drop created ripples And those ripples became a current And that current ran through you From your heart to your head And from your head to your heart And you tasted life, first, […]
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