Simply Blessed is on an indefinite hiatus. Enjoy the over 600 posts still available here — every post a stepping stone on an increasingly personal path that’s been building for nearly four years. The path ahead is yet to unfold and I feel compelled to let that unfolding happen privately. Thank you to everyone I’ve met here and to those who silently supported me.
Archive for March, 2011
Hiatus
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2011| 12 Comments »
Song to the Siren
Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged Japan, Music, Youtube on March 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This is dedicated to the many who have suffered as a result of the devastation in Japan. Yes, indeed, we were here when you were “full sail”. And though, we may not know you personally, you touched us all.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2vw189q4U]
On the floating shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
‘Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving into your isle
And you sang, “Sail to me, sail to me, let me enfold you.”
“Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you.”
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when I was full sail?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing, “Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow.”
Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow.
Well, I’m as puzzled as the newborn child
I’m as riddled as the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing, “Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you.”
“Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you.”
Song to the Siren
Lyrics as sung by the Cocteau Twins
Original lyrics by Tim Buckley
Desire
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Poems on March 27, 2011| 2 Comments »
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 the emptiness
gone so long now, I yielded to the rays of a sun drenched morning
closed my eyes and drank the golden elixir of sun
warmth caressed my throat, as if it would hold me there forever
I awoke in the spaces where love never fails
my spirit quickening to the footsteps of a new day rushing in
a breath, a pulse, a desire carries me forward
@heartsdeesire
The Island
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Spiritual Poems on March 11, 2011| 1 Comment »
Artist: Freydoon Rassouli
The Island
Islands of bliss and everlasting youth,
Floating like flowers on an endless sea
And never touched by sorrows from this world:
Such happy islands thou wilt never see.
Behold: what thou hast dreamt of may be real,
It is not elsewhere, it is what thou art
If thou rememb’rest God; then thou wilt find
The golden island in thy deepest heart.
The singing of a flute came from the sea;
The waters vanished, and the flute was me.
~Frithjof Schuon~
Music of the Sky
An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
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
and in need of a trim
here the heather bushes: bright pink, lilac and
creamy white eruptions of color
there the rhodies, blossoms contained in tight buds
not even hinting yet at their spring finery
and finally
a single
yellow
dandelion
in a field
by a pond
whispering
the promise
of another season
and a new beginning.
Unstained
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Korean Literature, Korean Poetry, Poems on March 1, 2011| 4 Comments »
A dash of rain upon
The lotus leaves. But the leaves
Remain unmarked, no matter
How hard the raindrops beat.
Mind, be like the lotus leaves,
Unstained by the world.
~Chong Ch’ol~
Music of the Sky
An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
Yes, mind be like the lotus leaves, untainted by outer events. As in the lotus leaf, rooted, grounded in the consciousness of God. Only this moment now.