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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
Journey by day, journey by night
Journey by day, journey by night one is not better or worse if you are still following: The temptation by day is to take the lead and the temptation by night is to despair – but with despair, you cry … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged darkness, despair, desperation, journey, light, pride, rescue
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Stepping
Your current step is always the result of your previous one and the forerunner of the next; our existence is not made up of fragmented parts so check your compass step carefully © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, awareness, contemplation, journey, meditation, path, step
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Upon reflection
This step is important, yes but equally important, where it is headed © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged journey, meditation, path, reflection, step
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Drumming on my window
Drumming on my window: rain turns to snow silence © Meisaan Chan
The meeting place
I hunger and thirst for you, says the Lord, I crawl through the desert for you, an my only solace is the hope that you’re crawling through the desert for me © Meisaan Chan
Temples in the sky
So badly do I want to be with you that I climb into a balloon, so it can lift me to your face’s reflection’s reflection © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged closeness, distance, temples, union, yearning
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Gifts
I have nothing of my own to give you I can only nurture your gifts, then re-give; like Mary: you gave her a seed and she gave you a child I own nothing but the gestation © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged birth, gestation, Gifts, Mary, poverty, spiritual poverty
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The visitation
You’re visiting me like Mary, heavy with joy jumping into arms © Meisaan Chan
Perhaps heaven is not like this
Perhaps heaven is not like this an endless city in the sky perhaps it’s not a place, or even a thought perhaps it’s a beyond-thought, a beyond-existence © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)
Bedbug meditations
1. Trudging to the laundromat, de-bedbugging The full moon hung like a wafer in the sky, full and unbelievably bright, her shyness having fallen away, and I, trudging with my contaminated clothes, bathed in the cleanness of her light, in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged bedbugs, clean, cleansing, moon, sanctuary
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Curving toward the center 