Category Archives: Poetry

The buried

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

“Keep digging,” God says. I, deep in the hole, shovel again. “What are we looking for?” I ask, angrily this time. “Your heart,” God says. © Meisaan Chan

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Keep digging, God says

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Keep digging, God says until you hit bedrock then, exchange your tools © Meisaan Chan

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Desolate home

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Outer barrenness matches inner barrenness © Meisaan Chan     (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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The path just took a strange turn

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The path just took a strange turn yet the path does not end with strangeness; into the darkness it goes © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)    

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Night walk

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Wading through stars, knee-deep alpine air sinks into me above, more stars watch © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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In remembrance

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Memories unfold origami flowers always blooming © Meisaan Chan

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I am the rope, says the Lord

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

I am the rope, says the Lord allowing the impossible to be done © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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When you break the silence

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

You will then need courage to face the brokenness but brokenness by compassion will heal brokenness by fear will remain brokenness by resentment will petrify © Meisaan Chan

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Equations

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  You keep trying to use equations to understand my love, says the Lord: you think you can add to it or multiply or subtract or divide yet so rarely to do you consider that lovely word, infinity, which has … Continue reading →

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If they take it all away

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

If they take it all away and all my kingdoms fall I’ll have nothing left to look at but you If they take it all away and I run to you you will show me that they didn’t © Meisaan Chan

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