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Tag Archives: beauty
A cardinal’s call stabs at the air
A cardinal’s call stabs at the airblue shining skywind blows right through © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Buddhism, meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged beauty, earth spirituality, impermanence, interbeing, nonbeing
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In this new world
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
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November
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
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Gazing out the cabin window, beauty gazing back at me
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
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Flower bouquet, I
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
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Maple syrup
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
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, Click save draft, dawn, freedom, leaves, Maple syrup, tree, union
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My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night
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
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Spring rain, cold and clear
Spring rain, cold and clear striking bone while striking flesh all the world shivers © Meisaan Chan
Touching proof
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
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Perspective
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
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