Category Archives: Spiritual poetry

Be not afraid of your emptiness

I fill you. Be not afraid of your emptiness, for your emptiness has limits and my fillness does not © Meisaan Chan

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Loving when you don’t want to love

Loving when you don’t want to love is the work of heroes © Meisaan Chan

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Dual vision

The healing never ends but one sign of growth is when you can look outward as well as inward © Meisaan Chan

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Monarch migration

Tiny, fragile butterfly submitting to the wind unthinkable journey © Meisaan Chan

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The Phoenix of the Lord

Let the Lord take you and take all so that nothing of you remains – let the ego be burned away until you are ash waiting to rise © Meisaan Chan

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Stumbling words

Sometimes, like now, my words stumble – alleluia, may they stumble into your arms © Meisaan Chan

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Surrendering strength

Love is the only thing you can surrender to and still get stronger © Meisaan Chan

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Thin veil for silence

Morning train rushes to stillness, the noise a thin veil for silence © Meisaan Chan

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Things that God cannot resist:

anguish the desire for wisdom the desire for compassion © Meisaan Chan

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Quiet, be quieter than a tree

Quiet, be quieter than a tree listen to it prattle away: Quiet, be quieter than grass listen to it grow: Quiet, be quieter than your heart listen to what it’s saying to you: Yes, those who have ears to hear … Continue reading

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