Category Archives: Spiritual poetry

A man once spoke to the earth

  A man once spoke to the earth to the sky and moon and stars Birds perched in his hand, they said; he knew the language of fish found Jesus in rocks and worms and for this we made him … Continue reading

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The landscape forms the mind, if we let it

  The landscape forms the mind, if we let it: if we enter into the ever-changing waters luminous, holy mountains jut-out daring cliffs or the shyness of a grain of sand    © Meisaan Chan

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How close you come to me

  How close you come to me, like the whisper of a bird’s wings caressing my face, flitting, then gone with only my tingling soul serving as remembrance       © Meisaan Chan    

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Spirit cleansing

  She washes over the earth swabbing wounds soothing fevers making broken hearts whole; it’s a soft washing, a bathing of the sick and all the while she hums, rinsing her cloth again and again and again     © … Continue reading

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What am I but a barnacle clinging

  What am I but a barnacle clinging to the hull of the great ship as it steers across eternal seas       © Meisaan Chan

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I have a right to be heard, shouts the soul

  I have a right to be heard, shouts the soul – those were its words when I finally  unlocked the door       © Meisaan Chan

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You resent the obstacle

  You resent the obstacle but through it I am showing you the way       © Meisaan Chan

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Let me be for you a glowing canopy of leaves

Let me be for you a glowing canopy of leaves translucent    © Meisaan Chan

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Who knew praise could be so dark

  Who knew praise could be so dark as the swirl of marbled storms or the gasp of faithful wound or the one blind finger stretching out to Thee       © Meisaan Chan

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You look at me with sad eyes.

  You look at me with sad eyes. “I’m not bleeding,” I say. “You’re not looking,” you say.       © Meisaan Chan

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