Pour yourself a cup of tea and ponder this question. Notice what the image stirs in you. Then go visit this week’s Poetry Party, and savor the poetic treasures gathered there. Then write your own poem and enter for your chance to win a prize! There are several ways to enter and the drawing will be on Sunday. [...]
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A Note
Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves,
catch your breath on the sand,
rise on wings;
to be a dog,
or stroke its warm fur;
to tell pain
from everything it’s not;
to squeeze inside events,
dawdle in views,
to seek the least of all possible mistakes.
An extraordinary chance
to remember for a moment
a conversation held
with the lamp switched off;
and if only [...]
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“It is this activity of working through disintegration that I consider to be at the core of the creative and therapeutic processes. I call this act “poesis” (following Heidegger’s use of the Greek word for poetry), and consider it to be at the center of human existence.
“It is essential to human being to fall apart, [...]
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Welcome to the 34th Poetry Party!
I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems or other reflections. If you have your own blog, please use the Mister Linky widget below to add a link back to your website. If you don’t have your own blog (not required to participate) [...]
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What Came to Me
I took the last
dusty piece of china
out of the barrel.
It was your gravy boat,
with a hard, brown
drop of gravy still
on the porcelain lip.
I grieved for you then
as I never had before.
-Jane Kenyon
The photo is of me as a young girl sitting on my father’s shoulder. I have shared some of my journey [...]
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Let us remember within us
The ancient clay,
Holding the memory of seasons,
The passion of the wind,
The fluency of water,
The warmth of fire,
The quiver-touch of the sun
And shadowed sureness of the moon.
That we may awaken,
To live to the full
The dream of the Earth
Who chose us to emerge
And incarnate its hidden night
In mind, spirit, and light.
-excerpted from John [...]
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The last few days have been rich, moving in me in ways I have yet to name. The hermit part of my soul is asking for some nurturning right now before I speak too much about what is stirring.
In the meantime I continue to receive gifts. I discovered this video at 37 Days (Patti Digh’s blog). [...]
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I am catching up on emails this morning and not sure what this says about me, but one of the notes that excited me most was from Rich at Pilgrim Path who sent me this link about a new book on relics called Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead. Some of you [...]
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Sybil Archibald, also know as Painter of Blue, has a blog dedicated to spirituality and art and loves medieval illuminations (so you know I was going to like her right from the start). She has even co-authored a book called Lapis and Gold, on reclaiming the original tools and methods of medieval artists. We have only [...]
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I am in the midst of a very stimulating conference, the kind where the conversations over meals with old and new friends is just as enlivening as the keynotes, prayers, and workshops. I opted to miss the second workshop this afternoon so I could catch up on email, the Poetry Party, and get a bit [...]
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