Category Archives: Poetry

With just one swerve, the path turns foreign

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

With just one swerve, the path turns foreign, other-worldly, hostile to life – still, I go with you still, I lead the way © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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You can fear walking upon the razor’s edge

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

You can fear walking upon the razor’s edge but sometimes there is no other place to walk © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Church angel

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I leave the pew and get in line for that little wafer that I don’t understand in a community I don’t frequent: I am a stranger in this semi-foreign land and in the other line of people a little girl … Continue reading →

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After the storm

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Deep shadows, bold morning light rain still sliding down my window, the world, slick and golden, glowing from within – and then the gold is gone, fled, leaving only drenched flatness but I remember what just passed I remember the … Continue reading →

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How you speak

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

If you were to show me all of your will in one great, blinding blow I would not do one thing, frozen: but, like reviving the eyes of the blind, I can detect the dark of shadows moving, and so … Continue reading →

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The forgetting

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Rushing through the day trying to get everything done so that nothing falls through the cracks and I’m so focused on this that you do fall © Meisaan Chan

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Fanning the fire of God

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

But the air we use to fan the fire is God’s air and the muscles we use to fan are God’s muscles and the kindling we use to burn is God’s kindling God using God to fan God © Meisaan … Continue reading →

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Spiritual resilience

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I. The desert is not afraid of scarcity welcoming what is II. The cactus does not say to the desert, You deserve more rain! III. The desert does not rely on reserves without, but on with reserves within © … Continue reading →

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Running into freedom

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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Because the real thing will come back around

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

With you, I abandon my success With you, I abandon my failings then, empty of all things except for you, I abandon you, too © Meisaan Chan

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