Category Archives: Poetry

Holy hunger, the sherpa

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Follow your hunger through your fear © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged adventure, chaos, darkness, fear, hunger, journey, turmoil | Leave a comment

Intimacy

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

It is easy to be naked in flesh and nearly insurmountable to be naked in mind © Meisaan Chan

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The equation

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Failure + listening can never equal failure © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged attentiveness, failure, haiku, healing, listening, microwriting, obedience, trust, vision, writing | Leave a comment

Slow going

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes it’s slow going because the path dissolved; but keep plodding, slow as it is © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged burden, community, hardship, resilience, slow, tenacity, trial, turtle, writing | Leave a comment

Vigilance

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Be on guard for self-hatred that most toxic of poisons © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged loathing, self-hatred, self-love, strength, vigilance | Leave a comment

Protector

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I thwart my own happiness and am the foil for my own plans; O Lord, hear me: place me in your eternal womb; protect me from myself and my potential harm © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged happiness, protection, self-hatred, self-love, strength, surrender, weakness, womb | Leave a comment

Tend to the health of your roots

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

for no matter what you build they cover all © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged disease, health, journey, joy, permeate, roots, struggle, writing | Leave a comment

Celestial prayer

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged light, luminescence, moon, praise, reflection, sun, worship | Leave a comment

In the darkness we come

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

In the darkness we come just for the chance to sit at your feet and be absorbed in the darkness and be absorbed in the light © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, clarity, darkness, enlightenment, help, light, tranquility, writing | Leave a comment

Brazenly peer into the face of God!

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Brazenly peer into the face of God! Then brazenly accept what you find! © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged brazen, courage, curiosity, peer, vision, writing | Leave a comment