Category Archives: Poetry

Attraction

As a fly is attracted to flypaper so, too, can my desires blind © Meisaan Chan

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Hovering

I am in the definitions and I am between them, and I’m certainly where there are no definitions at all © Meisaan Chan

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The turning is prayer

The turning is prayer The re-turning is prayer © Meisaan Chan

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To stand before the fullness

Empty, I stand before the fullness and weep © Meisaan Chan

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Wisdom, you touch with touchless hands

Wisdom, you touch with touchless hands and penetrate, all-knowing, beyond flesh © Meisaan Chan

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The Leash Request

When anger inflames my heart and I go blind, be that leash so I do not walk off cliffs © Meisaan Chan  

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Overturning compassion

Does compassion always soothe? No. Sometimes it overturns. © Meisaan Chan

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On worshiping other gods

Other gods break. Other gods die. You can worship the abyss, but it will not protect you. © Meisaan Chan  

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Only if you want to stop

Walk on the dead-end road only if you want to stop © Meisaan Chan

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Dilution

You can dilute your time with me, says the Lord but it will not be I who will be diluted © Meisaan Chan

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