Category Archives: Poetry

Tool

  Anger is a tool; if it is anything more than that it is not mine      © Meisaan Chan

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Restlessness

  Restlessness carves branching paths: one always leads to me     © Meisaan Chan

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In the calmness

  In the calmness  the gentle hand, in the quiet  the yearning     © Meisaan Chan  

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The sky glows above

  The sky glows above the mirror water glows below everywhere I look, all is light my heart steps into that light     © Meisaan Chan       Photo credit:  Betsy Devany, www.betsydevany.wordpress.com (a wonderful friend who writes for children of … Continue reading

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The heavy lifting of friendship

The heavy lifting of friendship can only be done together and the worth of friendship can only be known when lifted   © Meisaan Chan

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On we go

  On we go glowing grasses dawning light freedom dripping off our tusks     © Meisaan Chan   Photo credit: National Geographic    

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Unseen God

  Whoever called you the unseen God was numb in the deepest sense of the word for you are here in the glowing trees and red lights and stop signs and surprise sales when we’re shopping and silent tears and … Continue reading

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On self-pity

  It is good to be found and even better when I accept that I was never left behind     © Meisaan Chan  

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Give it all to me

  Give it all to me your endless rage seas of weeping and sweeping fear; I did not build the heart to be a prison for your blind and lame and diseased but a chamber to be emptied out and … Continue reading

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Tango lessons

  I will never push always suggest a dancer on the floor, with the slightest pressure speaking the language of skin waiting to take you everywhere if you listen   And if you don’t we can dance the basic step … Continue reading

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