Category Archives: writing

Tenacity’s nature

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Tenacity deepens not with hardship but with rounds of hardship © Meisaan Chan

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The bypassing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I grow fat with love sometimes the times are lean: free me from all this and connect me to that umbilical cord which bypasses famine, drought, delight © Meisaan Chan

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A prayer to stop wandering in ruts

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Camino God, my journeyer: help me remember the pathway out of my ruts so I do not wander in ruts but journey home to you © Meisaan Chan

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Doorway to God

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

To ask for and accept help is to walk through the eye of a needle, which cannot be done without help © Meisaan Chan

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Burdenless

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

If all is submitted before the altar of the Lord then there is nothing else to carry © Meisaan Chan

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Water at your ankles

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Warm water at your ankles the human talks gently, softly as the sun rises, all is bathed again © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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Divine persistence

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you love me! All the ways I run away! All the ways you love me! © Meisaan Chan

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The delay

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

This leg of the journey cannot continue until you say yes © Meisaan Chan

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Summer solstice

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

At its zenith, the light bathes the earth, tender kisses upon the ground and upon the back of my hand nothing is untouched © Meisaan Chan

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The moment I write to you

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The moment I write to you: my womb relax es and muscles release like they do in no other ac tivity; again, somehow, you draw me unto you through w riting, unusual as it can be sometimes, as long as … Continue reading →

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