Category Archives: Poetry

Amtrak in Chicago

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Trains lumber by concrete and brick and grey heart soft © Meisaan Chan

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Trying so hard to make things happen

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Pushing at left hind leg of elephant: futile struggle, no movement © Meisaan Chan

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Nothing is not connected

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Healing feeds all resentment poisons all © Meisaan Chan

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The reminder

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

I take better care of you than any of your plans, God says. So relax. I lead: you follow. © Meisaan Chan

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Glory

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

All glory is yours the stars explode in praise © Meisaan Chan

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Looking for silence

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Silence is an artificial construct – even your heart makes noise – so know what you are really looking for when you try to enter into it © Meisaan Chan

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Following the leader

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

If God has not lost hope then neither will I © Meisaan Chan

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Proper place

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Nothing can save me except you, O Lord: everything falls into its proper place © Meisaan Chan

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The courage to enter

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The one thing that matters you will have, and you will have forever so let all else slough away, one by one by one by one until the core of the core is revealed until you have the courage to … Continue reading →

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The (perhaps) temporary hell

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

God always waits for us to change our mind: to make these five, thirty, sixty, ninety years of us bumbling around, trying to figure out what’s going on be the lynch pin for the rest of eternity seems a little … Continue reading →

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