Waterfall

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
In stillness
I gaze at all the rushing
watching as my sister, too,
flies
 
 
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It can be tempting to think I am a machine

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
It can be tempting to think I am a machine
efficient,
calculating,
knocking out that to-do list
until I hit a glitch
until the machine breaks down
until I come to a garden with a single lily growing
and behold it with my eyes, my flesh
lungs breathing in, breathing out
 
 
© Meisaan Chan
 
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You’re never going to be alone

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
You’re never going to be alone
because I’m not outside of you, able to be lost;
I am dug into your marrow
entrenched
 
 
© Meisaan Chan
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A day at the beach, 1905

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
What happens to our joy when we die
to our frolicking under the sun
or our contentment of digging our toes in the sand;
what happens to the love of ghosts,
these centuries standing on the shoulders of millennia
standing on the wispy non-shoulders beyond memory
– it’s just one big lake –
and each day we add our bliss, our suffering, our passion
drop by drop
 
 
© Meisaan Chan

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When I give you a quiet moment

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
When I give you a quiet moment
do not fill it and then say
you never get a quiet moment
 
 
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The sun does not crush me

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
The sun does not crush me
nor do monsoons
nor does the enormity of the sky
and stroke by stroke I come for you
to find where you are lost
 
 
© Meisaan Chan
 
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Stop surfing

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
Stop surfing –
what are you looking for, anyway?
At least nomads focus on their sheep
but you: you’re training your mind to focus on nothing
 
 
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Going numb is sometimes needed

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
Going numb is sometimes needed
but do not forget to reawaken the heart
or else it will slumber on
 
 
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I am as gentle as dappled sunlight on your skin

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
I am as gentle as dappled sunlight on your skin;
your heart, so delicate
– so mishandled! –
shivers, not trusting the goodness,
but come, I whisper,
despite your swath of fear,
come into the heart
 
 
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Let me set up a tent for you

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Meisaan Chan
 
Let me set up a tent for you, I say
and a soft smile crosses your face;
let’s put it up together, you respond,
and we face it to the east,
so when we unzip the door
with a fresh breeze, bright 
we see another beginning:
our hearts breathe into living space
as open opens unto open
 
© Meisaan Chan
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