Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged Personal, Poems, Trees, Wisdom on February 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
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past the borders of happiness and unhappiness
a rim of fire oaks bid me on the blue horizon
smooth hand like leaves held me there
while the first hard rain fell
I kneeled and leaned into the heady fragrance
of an ancient wisdom revealed
beneath the old rough timber
it spoke of the delicate balance in being
at once firmly rooted while [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged Inspire, Poems on January 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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almost entirely hidden
we carry this
a little pocket of pain
the one that time didn’t heal
tucked where it can’t easily be seen
something trivial and you bump into it
unexpected, it’s still tender
sometimes pieces tumble out
“it’s been ten years since …”
“I haven’t forgetten the moment when …”
the lyrics of our wounds differ
but that we are inevitably moved upon
by [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams, tagged Inspire, Poems on December 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
there are oceans of blue sky within
one deep inhale of the ancient salt water sky
and you are capsized into this world
gently you are breathed through the ebb and the swell
you — have lived here forever
while this world has unfailingly carried you
©heartsdeesire
Posted in Inspiration, Love, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams, tagged Bliss, Inspire, Poems on November 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
what will you do…?
when the worry is gone
when the self condemnation is gone
when fear is not your bedfellow
what will you do with that new wide open space
lay down in it
breathe deeply
close your eyes
you are home
©heartsdeesire
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged Autumn, Consciousness, Inspire, Nature, Poems, Trees on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
a blustery autumn day today
the last of the maples
the cherries and the stately alders
releasing their leaves
they compel me to set free
the old that hangs on
in favor of what newness
may blossom
from my limbs
©heartsdeesire
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams, tagged Beloved, Desire, Inspire, Poems on November 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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I have fallen between the cracks
and landed in the spaces
where love never fails
Beloved, you are my captor
and I am bound by your love
I hear you whisper softly
don’t speak. words fail here, just listen
churning on the seas of your desire
I am the rising and the falling
the beginning and the ending
the fullness and the emptiness
journey to [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged Animals, Cat, Dog, God on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
God couldn’t be here himself
so he clothed his Helpers in fur
and sent them to Earth
be soft he said
and they were
lick he said
and they did
purr he said
and they did
love, love, love he said
as if nothing else ever mattered
and o, how they do.
©heartsdeesire
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Posted in Life, Poetry, elizabeth adams, tagged Dogma, Heart, Intelligence, Poems, Secret, Words on September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ll never know why always or never
could stand in a sentence and seem
so self-assured
as if it had access to some secret intelligence
that just knew it could only ever be this way
or not this way at all
everything destroyed or worse yet
never born in a single careless breath
a heart grows hard if it listens for too long
no [...]
