Category Archives: Poetry

A gym of sorts

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Strength does not come instantly but after repeated tears of muscle fibers and then the sets of repetitions over many weeks and months: This is also true for the spirit for life is calling you to lift, not just once … Continue reading →

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Slowly, you challenge me to rise above

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Slowly, you challenge me to rise above slowly, my soul sloughs off the weight and indeed, I rise © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged burden, freedom, healing, home, release, soul, weight | Leave a comment

Futures that never come

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Nighttime obsessing daytime preoccupation life force drains away © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anxiety, death, distracted, empty, emptying, help, help me, life, Obsessing | Leave a comment

The unknowing space

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Bring me past my anxiety to the unknowing space and in the unknowing, unjudging and in the unjudging, openness, letting all things flow through until I am flown through and in this all-unknowing, flowing through, peace © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anxiety, compassion, emptiness, fullness, judgment, openness, spirit, un-judging, unknowing | 2 Comments

A bathtub prayer

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

As I ease into the water, soak into me, relieve my tension-holding; let it ebb out so I can hear your voice so I can hear mine so I can breathe in silence, holding onto nothing © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged bath, bathtub, body, contemplation, embodied, embodiment, meditation | Leave a comment

Entertaining thoughts

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

You have no control over what thoughts knock on your door but it is only you who opens © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged contemplation, meditation, self-control, wisdom | Leave a comment

A note from the one who defends

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

It is not your job to worry about the battle; it is your job to stay close © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged battle, defender, help, humility, protection, struggle, trust, union, unity | Leave a comment

Maple syrup

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Sweetness, fresh from the tree tasting like freedom and dawn and leaves: all the ways you show all the ways that you are: the small, shy drops © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, Click save draft, dawn, freedom, leaves, Maple syrup, tree, union | Leave a comment

Be courageous

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged courage, humility, love, openness, strength, surrender, transformation | Leave a comment

The wound

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged forgiveness, healing, help, humility, injury, trust, wholeness, wound | Leave a comment