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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
A note from the one who defends
It is not your job to worry about the battle; it is your job to stay close © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged battle, defender, help, humility, protection, struggle, trust, union, unity
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Maple syrup
Sweetness, fresh from the tree tasting like freedom and dawn and leaves: all the ways you show all the ways that you are: the small, shy drops © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, Click save draft, dawn, freedom, leaves, Maple syrup, tree, union
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Be courageous
Be courageous: Love can come out of mess © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged courage, humility, love, openness, strength, surrender, transformation
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The wound
Learning to trust again filling eternal hole with eternal sustenance human desire, divine task © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged forgiveness, healing, help, humility, injury, trust, wholeness, wound
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I do not need more control
I do not need more control you have given me enough, and for that which I cannot control another prayer rises as I let go of what does not belong to me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Click save draft, control, control freak, humility, prayer, recovery, relinquishment, surrender, trust
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When I’m restless
When I’m restless, remind me to come to you; there is no real place to go after that © Meisaan Chan
My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night
My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night and so, awake, I stumbled to the bathroom, and upon my return, I was struck by the frame of moonlight-drenched carpet – my window, achingly luminous and through it, there she was, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, calm, luminosity, luminous, moon, moonlight, noise, peace, silence, union
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The power of humility’s absence
Forgiving while still carrying self-righteous indignation is not forgiveness and nor will you heal © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged forgiveness, healing, humility, indignation, openness, rage, woundedness
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Inner hostility
Inner hostility weeps for tenderness, wants to reach out and thinks it can’t © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged fear, Hostility, loneliness, oppression, silent, suffering, tenderness
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The quickest way to exhaustion
The quickest way to exhaustion is to fight for justice alone © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged balance, community, compassion, equanimity, exhaustion, justice, strength, weakness
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Curving toward the center 