Category Archives: Spiritual poetry

May all loss be a signpost

  May all loss be a signpost pointing the way to you     © Meisaan Chan

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Life is not a popularity contest

  Life is not a popularity contest and if the world rejects you when you claim who you are that is an acceptable price     © Meisaan Chan

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Give it all to me.

  Give it all to me. I did not create the heart to be a prison for your blind and lame and diseased but a chamber to be emptied out and filled eternally with me.     © Meisaan Chan  

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You can be living and dying at the same time

  You can be living and dying at the same time as a tree in autumn but also as a diseased vine with one last root       © Meisaan Chan

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There is nothing left.

  There is nothing left. I’ve thrown out the furniture the jewelry, the photos, the bed even my spare set of socks for all of this takes up space which you, the God of infinity, plan to fill and so … Continue reading

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Please clean your house.

   Please clean your house. It is so full I cannot enter through the door and the back door is blocked, too; you call for me but leave no space for me to enter. Please clean your house.     … Continue reading

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Sunset

  Liquid gold lines the clouds and as I gaze outward my tiny, brittle heart remembers its expanse       © Meisaan Chan

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To give a thank you to God

  To give a thank you to God is to throw a drop of water into the sea; to become a thank you for God is to join the sea       © Meisaan Chan

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Idol

  Overwhelming stress is an indication that an altar has been built       © Meisaan Chan

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The lost

  Here I come hair tied back sweeping up the lost       © Meisaan Chan

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