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Category Archives: writing
A Meditation for Focus
Pull up the distractions like weedsto find the flower of your focus Pull weeds, find focusweeds grow, pull again © Meisaan Chan
Stay alert: Safety and danger are impermanent
Stay alert: Safety can change to dangerand danger can change to safety;the blue sky turns blackthe black sky turns blue;the place of danger is now a place of refugewhich can change back to a place of danger again. Ducks know … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Earth poetry, Feminine God, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged alert, alertness, danger, duck, duck spirituality, impermanence, safety
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Be not afraid of brokenness
Be not afraid of brokennessas a duckling emerges from the shell knows:Brokenness means lifeBrokenness means growthBrokenness means hopeBrokenness means beginnings 6/16/2020
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Earth poetry, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged brokenness, hardship, help, help me, starting over, struggle
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What the birds know
The rain slows, then stopsbirds start singingworld wet, needs music Clouds thick, then thinthen finally break. No matter:Birds do not need sun to sing © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Earth poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged compassion, coronavirus, earth spirituality, hope, love, spirituality
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Intimate longing
The leaves rustle against each other like gentle rainas the trees know what we do not:earth and sky long for each other, intimately © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Earth poetry, Feminine God, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged Earth poetry, intimacy, intimate, longing, mysticism, Poetry, union
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Exposure
The longer the exposurethe deeper in it goesboth life-giving and death-givingstay alert © Meisaan Chan
Spirituality of the spiral
When life sends you around againlook for the deeper;do not go around in a circlego in a spiral © Meisaan Chan
Even goodness needs to be adapted to
Even goodness needs to be adapted to,when you are used to squalorwhen the patterns of refuse have set in so deepthat you are simply used to throwing yourself away;Even goodness needs to be adapted totake your timestay gentle © Meisaan … Continue reading
Maple tree lesson
You can look at realitybut there is a reality within the reality –do you see? Do you see the deeper reality within the maple tree?Within everything? © Meisaan Chan
How to safely peer into the chaos
Use my vision alone to peer into the chaos, says the Lord;use my sight alone to seefor love neither looks awaynor dissolves into despairbut knows there is always something greater;as it gazes, it knows the end © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Feminine God, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged chaos, coronavirus, help, help me, submission
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