Category Archives: Poetry

The wild is within you

The wild is within you the tame is within you © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Here I come to tend to your wounds

Here I come to tend to your wounds, O bleeding one, to accompany you on this long path home, to guide you through the night © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Passive aggressiveness

Little barbs on words hook into the heart carefully, I take them out © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Delivering a computer in 1957 – or – Efficiency

A sign that the soul has grown is when our ghosts which used to be haunt us now fit in the palm of our hand © Meisaan Chan (photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Follow me, God says

Follow me, God says mountains turn to deserts: good walking shoes © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

I want to spend some time with God

I want to spend some time with God the particle yearning for the source I want to spend some time with God naked, hands behind head, feet on coffee table home I want to spend some time with God subsumed … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Inner stability

If they treat you one way, you rejoice if they treat you another way, you explode – Find your rock! Find your rock! Why think your worth is so unstable? © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A note on co-dependence

When you dissolve in me you retain your identity – that is, you become none other than fully yourself; dissolving any place elsewhere simply means  you disappear © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Training your thoughts

Well-behaved children do not just happen: if they sit still in chairs and say please and thank you and ask permission – that reflects years of training in all the little moments: for the most important moments are the daily, … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Mindfulness

You might not know you’re standing at the precipice if you’re focusing elsewhere © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment