read me the story, if I ever forget about how precious life is how temporary how I want to fill each moment knowing it’s sacred it’s a gift absolutely beyond all gifts read me the story how I came here unafraid, innocent and eager how I threw my arms around life rubbed my face [...]
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Open Book
Posted in elizabeth adams, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Spiritual Poems on September 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Opening to the Day
Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love on June 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
God is in this house I say with hand to chest so touched by the world and every one in it I want to kiss all your cheeks until they are wet with spilled love and then spill some more
Desire
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Poems on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Image locale grief came courting me during the night her fields so soft and fragile I buried myself in the whole of her unbroken darkness until a tiny beacon of light cut through the night: sorrow has its inner light, murmured the new day in the arc of stillness, it burns away [...]
Signs of Spring
Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged Musings, Nature, Spring on March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The earth is my new employer. My job now is to look for the signs of Spring. And no, I’m not going to tell you that it’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it. I’ve been asked just to notice and this is what I observed: here the green grass awake from its dormancy [...]
Conversations with Spirit
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Spirituality, tagged Enoughness, Extraordinary, Ordinary, Spirit on December 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Image Locale It was a conversation we’d had so many times before but this time I was insistent. “Tell me about the common and the ordinary,” I said earnestly. “We can’t,” Spirit answered, “we know nothing of it. Everything we created has been thoroughly imbued with the inordinate embrace of greatness.” “To [...]
Pockets
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, tagged Inspire, Maui, Poems on November 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »
It seems we all carry stories about our lives, private pains we’ve gone in and through. It was my first visit to Maui, last December, that inspired this poem. I met so many people with their heart open, so willing to share with me something so deeply personal to them, even in just chance conversations. [...]
Gather Paradise
Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, tagged Emily Dickinson, Paradise, Poems on October 2, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors — the fairest For Occupation — This The spreading wide of narrow Hands To gather Paradise ~Emily Dickinson~ [...]
Presence
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Mindfulness, Poetry, tagged Poems, Power of Now, Presence on July 22, 2010 | 34 Comments »
“This day will not come again.” ~ Thomas Merton First blush of morning erupts Songbirds usher in fresh beginnings * * * This day shall not come again * * * Summer afternoon arrives on the tuft of a breeze Expectant sunflowers bow their ample heads * * * This day shall not come again [...]
Life’s Manual
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Inspire, Poems on July 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
As you follow the path of life every now and then, flirt wildly with it Begin each day with only an eager yes on your lips Leap into the wide open arms of all things immeasurable Then, flow like water spill over the edges of your life ©heartsdeesire