Welcome to Poetry Party #78!
I select an image (the photo above is by fellow dancing monk Anneclaire LeRoyer) and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there.
Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you have one), Facebook, or Twitter, and encourage others to come join the party! (If you repost the photo, please make sure to include the credit link below it and link back to this post inviting others to join us).
We began this month with a Community Visio Divina practice with the latest dancing monk icon of St. Francis of Assisi and followed up with our Photo Party on the theme of the “sacred ordinary.” (You are most welcome to still participate). We continue this theme in our Poetry Party this month. How might you bring reverence to an ordinary moment of your day through the gift of poem-writing? How might you see the sacred in the mundane?
You can post your poem either in the comment section below*or you can join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group (with more than 1800 members!) and post there.
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I did not use this picture, but took mine from the questions about bringing reverence to an ordinary part of the day. I published the poem on my blog : http://gaylwright.blogspot.com/2014/06/dirty-dishes.html
Sacred
Every hair
on every squirrel’s tail
Every baby’s eyelash
Every battered pot
Every drop of blood
Every dog’s loving gaze
All are sacred
Let us remove
the word “ordinary”
from our minds
seeing only only sacred
Chase, chase,
Who will be first,
To the tomb?
No, to heaven.
Why go there?
Heaven, or the tomb.
Both are empty,
’til you arrive.
The One Love
Left an empty cave, twice.
Each leaving,
Leaving a space.
For heaven,
For you.
shared the invite at Faith Hope & Cherrytea blog for both photo and poetry.. love the creativity shared here already !
there’s a lake
in the middle
of the middle
of my life
where quiet
chaos reigns
supreme.
yes, please
pausing as presence
every moment sacred
present to the now
all of nature shows it
squirrels are even playing
present in the now
in my daily life
every moment sacred
how than will I be
pausing to presence
inhaling all around me
present to the pause
August’s Symphony
Is full of dreams
in the forest sunlit green
red bells and purple trumpets
winds through pines and oaks
play harp like strains
even stones sing out glory
amid splashes of yellow, white and blue
pine cones falling are the drumbeat
with acorns tapping, too
the chipmunk’s tail keeps rthymn
and all critters join the dance
squirrels do graceful leaps from branch to branch
joining angelic wings hovering
hummingbird ascends to the heights
Caught up in the symphony
I am one with the Cosmic Dream
Sitting at the pond’s edge
A quick glance to the still water
How beautiful
Racing thoughts
To-do-lists
Dreams of far away lands
Should-ing
Have-to-do-ing
Exhaustion
Suddenly a fleeting thought from somewhere
Breathe!
Listen!
You don’t have to do anything
You should do nothing
Then was then
Now is now
And finally I can hear the music.
A chorus of frogs
An invitation to join
In the celebration of spring