Category Archives: Poetry

When I am known and unknown

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I see what I am to become:New flesh, reborn –Sometimes all is dark, wrapped tight:The chrysalis tightly closed © Meisaan Chan

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You can only give what you have

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

I wish to give you my beauty but have it not, O Lord,so you give me beauty that I may give it back to you I wish to give you my courage but have it not, O Lord,so you give … Continue reading →

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The nature of jealousy’s holes

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Have compassion on those who are jealous of you –your love that goes in will fall out of their holesbut better your compassion than your spitewhich will stick to you both © Meisaan Chan

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Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so;just as the trees every year lose the crown of their gloryand the days lose their strength,just as the seed loses its protectionand the cougar loses its territoryand birds lose their flight … Continue reading →

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What gets overlooked – on rage

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Rage is a sword with no handleso while you wield it and slice and killyour hands, to the bones, your hands – © Meisaan Chan

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The twisting path: When there is no precedent

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

O, how the path twists!Have confidence not in what has gone before;have confidence, instead, in me © Meisaan Chan

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Vision

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

When I am pushed to the maxhelp me handle myself carefully, tenderly, delicately:Help me discern who also willand who won’t © Meisaan Chan

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Return to the womb, says the Lord

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Return to the womb, says the LordQuestions do not need to be answered there.You do not even need to know the questions there.The darkness is safety.The warmth is safety.The breath is free and safe.Return to the womb © Meisaan Chan

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Pernicious comfort

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes discomfort is precisely what is neededto move to better places;comfort can be perniciousas we settleand settleand settle © Meisaan Chan

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True healing and false healing

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

True healing necessitates digging out infectionpain and work False healing claimsthat doing nothing will heal © Meisaan Chan

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