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Category Archives: Poetry
Waterfall
In stillness I gaze at all the rushing watching as my sister, too, flies © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged contemplation, flight, meditation, stillness, waterfall
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It can be tempting to think I am a machine
It can be tempting to think I am a machine efficient, calculating, knocking out that to-do list until I hit a glitch until the machine breaks down until I come to a garden with a single lily growing and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged breathing, flesh, lily, machine, pausing, schedule, space, to-do list
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You’re never going to be alone
You’re never going to be alone because I’m not outside of you, able to be lost; I am dug into your marrow entrenched © Meisaan Chan
A day at the beach, 1905
What happens to our joy when we die to our frolicking under the sun or our contentment of digging our toes in the sand; what happens to the love of ghosts, these centuries standing on the shoulders of millennia … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged afterlife, beach, death, eternity, lake, spirits
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When I give you a quiet moment
When I give you a quiet moment do not fill it and then say you never get a quiet moment © Meisaan Chan
The sun does not crush me
The sun does not crush me nor do monsoons nor does the enormity of the sky and stroke by stroke I come for you to find where you are lost © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Stop surfing
Stop surfing – what are you looking for, anyway? At least nomads focus on their sheep but you: you’re training your mind to focus on nothing © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged attention, discipline, focus, nomads, technology, wandering
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Going numb is sometimes needed
Going numb is sometimes needed but do not forget to reawaken the heart or else it will slumber on © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged awaken, healing, heart, numb, numbness, pain, slumber
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I am as gentle as dappled sunlight on your skin
I am as gentle as dappled sunlight on your skin; your heart, so delicate – so mishandled! – shivers, not trusting the goodness, but come, I whisper, despite your swath of fear, come into the heart © … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged gentleness, heart, intimacy, journey, tenderness
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Let me set up a tent for you
Let me set up a tent for you, I say and a soft smile crosses your face; let’s put it up together, you respond, and we face it to the east, so when we unzip the door with a fresh … Continue reading
Curving toward the center 