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Valencia Street

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , , , on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You find yourself on a street you’ve never
walked, in the town you grew up in
and came back to. The street is a ribbon
on a gift you’ve never opened. You walk the street
and a waft of jasmine fills you, a white cat
crosses your path, and from an open window
you hear the sound of a violin. Garlic
is [...]

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How I Make Music

Posted in Music, Poetry, tagged , , on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

People ask me how I make music.
I tell them I just step into it.
It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow.
Every moment in the river has it’s song.
So I stay in the moment and listen.
What I hear is never the same.
A walk through the woods brings a light, crackling song:
Leaves rustle in the [...]

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River of Dreams

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Music, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dedicated to Kitty C. who turned me onto these poetic lyrics from the Piano Man…
Album Cover by Christie Brinkley

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the Mountains of Faith
To the river so deep
I must be lookin’ for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it’s too [...]

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Fresh and Wild

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rumi, tagged , , on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Make me sweet again
fragrant and fresh and wild
and thankful for any small event
~Rumi~

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Faraway Places

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams, tagged , , , on July 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

as twilight begins
and darkness descends
light pours into small spaces
and I am tossed out into the violet night
half remembering now the questions I asked:
what’s it like in that other realm?
and
will I be alone?
answers drift in from faraway places
and hang like forbidden fruit
words and images impossible to translate
relief comes as the first blush of morning arrives
wind strokes [...]

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Hymn to Eros

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, tagged on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
Let the shadow of thy wings
brush me.
Let thy presence
enfold me, as if darkness
were swandown.
Let me see that darkness
lamp in hand,
this country become
the other country
sacred to desire.
Drowsy god,
slow the wheels of my thought
so that I listen only
to the snowfall hush of
thy circling.
Close my beloved with me
in the smoke ring [...]

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what will you do…?

Posted in Inspiration, Love, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams, tagged , on June 12, 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

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All Souls

Posted in Abraham Hicks, Inspiration, Life, Metaphysical, Poetry, Spirituality, elizabeth adams on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Last night while you slept, the All Souls meeting was held
The western hemisphere convened in Rio Di Janeiro
And the eastern in New Dehli
With conferencing between the two via telepathy
Up for discussion and a vote:
Shall we reveal to human forms that there really is
no death?
All other life forms intuitively understand this
many people are still unaware [...]

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A Walk

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, tagged on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has its inner light, even from a distance—
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a gesture waves us on, answering our [...]

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The Friend

Posted in Love, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged , , , on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Today,  I recognized
that the jewel-like beauty
is the Presence,

Our loving confusion
the glow in which
watery clay gets
brighter than fire,
the One we call the Friend.
I begged, “Is there a way into you, a ladder?”
“Your head is the ladder,
bring it down under your feet.”

The mind, this globe of awareness,
is a starry Universe that when you push off
with [...]

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