Curving toward the center

Breaking the status quo

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes, in order to heal
you need to plunge your hands into the wound
and pull out the long-raging infection

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You stop me in my tracks

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

You stop me in my tracks, O Lord
for nothing is more important than listening
except following what I hear

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The mutual bleeding

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have hurt you
and in hurting you, I bleed

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Get ready your houses

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Get ready your houses
for the one who is coming will ask you to stay:
do not be attached to the placement of things
for the one who is coming will re-arrange all

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Contemplation

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

When the soul sits down
tucks paw under chin
and gazes

(Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Prostration

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Wind-swept land
leaning deep upon the earth
all is prostration

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In the early morn

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

In the early morn
I wake before the others
to lie awake with you, O God
my love, my love

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O Great Spirit

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Great Spirit, alighting in silence
circling slowly in my heart
wingtips trembling in the current
as you circle
circle
circle
spiraling through the expanse

– for Katie Reimer

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There is a time to pity the self

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

There is a time to pity the self
and a time to challenge it to more

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Always and forever

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

No one said the path would become this foreign
and yet still, you go before me

(Photo Credit: National Geographic)

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