Category Archives: Poetry

Paradox

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Direct communication is the most vulnerable and oftentimes the strongest © Meisaan Chan

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Breaking the status quo

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes, in order to heal you need to plunge your hands into the wound and pull out the long-raging infection © Meisaan Chan

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You stop me in my tracks

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

You stop me in my tracks, O Lord for nothing is more important than listening except following what I hear © Meisaan Chan

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The mutual bleeding

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have hurt you and in hurting you, I bleed © Meisaan Chan

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Get ready your houses

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Get ready your houses for the one who is coming will ask you to stay: do not be attached to the placement of things for the one who is coming will re-arrange all © Meisaan Chan    

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Contemplation

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

When the soul sits down tucks paw under chin and gazes © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Prostration

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Wind-swept land leaning deep upon the earth all is prostration © Meisaan Chan

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In the early morn

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

In the early morn I wake before the others to lie awake with you, O God my love, my love © Meisaan Chan

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O Great Spirit

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Great Spirit, alighting in silence circling slowly in my heart wingtips trembling in the current as you circle circle circle spiraling through the expanse – for Katie Reimer © Meisaan Chan

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There is a time to pity the self

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

There is a time to pity the self and a time to challenge it to more © Meisaan Chan

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