Tag Archives: beauty

A cardinal’s call stabs at the air

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

A cardinal’s call stabs at the airblue shining skywind blows right through © Meisaan Chan

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In this new world

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

For the first time since nearly the beginning of time – this new world, that is – I slept until the alarm. Like my old life, I negotiated with God and hit the snooze. What a simple gesture – hitting … Continue reading →

Posted in meditation, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, corona, grounding, help, help me, joy, peace | Leave a comment

November

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

I have forgotten how red the earth gets in autumn I have forgotten the beauty of impending death I have forgotten the graciousness of the lesson © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged aging, autumn, beauty, Click save draft click save draft, contemplation, death, fall, meditation, remembrance, seasons, union | Leave a comment

Gazing out the cabin window, beauty gazing back at me

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Birch trees numerous as the cattails standing white, standing brown © Meisaan Chan

Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged autumn, beauty, birch trees, Cabin, cattails, fall, meditation | Leave a comment

Flower bouquet, I

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

At first, I am overwhelmed by beauty I am blinded slowly, though, my eyes adjust and I start to see the subtle illness the subtle death the subtle imperfection and all of this gives me pause for praise, comfort, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, Buddhism, Buddhist, Click save draft, death, emptiness, flowers, illness, imperfection, impermanence | Leave a comment

Maple syrup

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Sweetness, fresh from the tree tasting like freedom and dawn and leaves: all the ways you show all the ways that you are: the small, shy drops © Meisaan Chan

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My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night and so, awake, I stumbled to the bathroom, and upon my return, I was struck by the frame of moonlight-drenched carpet – my window, achingly luminous and through it, there she was, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, calm, luminosity, luminous, moon, moonlight, noise, peace, silence, union | Leave a comment

Spring rain, cold and clear

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged alive, beauty, cold, rain, shivers, spring, world | Leave a comment

Touching proof

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I make things beautiful, says the Lord; from the morass, music from the chaos, light – look for the beauty, my delicate fingerprint, proof that yes, yes: I have touched © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, chaos, fingerprint, hardship, light, music, pain, presence | Leave a comment

Perspective

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Throughout the day, I turned the bouquet of flowers on my desk this way and that, gazing at a different curve of petal, a different spike of leaf: So gently they remind me that beauty is not contained in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged awe, beauty, blindness, diversity, flowers, perspective, vision, wisdom | Leave a comment