Life So Real ~ Poetry: twilight

Friday, July 23, 2010

twilight

twilight
eclipses
the movement of my soul
and i reach out
for heaven's embrace
this star
burning in the night sky

within her
i am absorbed
nourished
warm pulse of the earth
flowing through my veins
like a red river
of life

through him
i am breathed
sustained
effervescent light
filling the emptiness
like blue fills the sky
on a cloudless day

dawn
emerges
from the dance of my soul
and i receive
heaven's embrace
this star
shining in the night sky

the journey of poetry

"...a spiritual journey is a lot like a poem. You don't merely recite a poem or analyze it intellectually. You dance it, sing it, cry it, feel it on your skin and in your bones. You move with it and feel its caress. It falls on you like a teardrop or wraps around you like a smile. It lives in the heart and the body as well as the spirit and the head."

Sue Monk Kidd
When the Heart Waits

the journey of words...

sometimes they come as a gift; the words flowing into my mind at odd moments and i'm forced to repeat them over and over until i can quickly write them down on scraps of paper. it's like they're so excited to be discovered that they write themselves and i am just the vessel through which they become manifest...

and other times it's like a game of hide and seek. they give me a clue, an idea, but the harder i try to find them, the more they elude me. they want to be found, but they enjoy the game. and so i wait patiently, catching glimpses of them here and there. Until one day, maybe weeks or months later, they are comfortable enough to come out of hiding, finding the perfect moment to create themselves...