Tag Archives: Click save draft

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

Comparing your path to others’

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Comparing your path to others’ denies the majesty of your own © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Click save draft, Comparing, competition, jealousy, judging, judgment | Leave a comment

I used to loathe my limits

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I used to loathe my limits: How narrowly I had defined my power © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged acceptance, Click save draft, freedom, limits, power, relinquishment | 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

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged beauty, Click save draft, dawn, freedom, leaves, Maple syrup, tree, union | Leave a comment

I do not need more control

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I do not need more control you have given me enough, and for that which I cannot control another prayer rises as I let go of what does not belong to me © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Click save draft, control, control freak, humility, prayer, recovery, relinquishment, surrender, trust | Leave a comment

Trust

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Hands cupped and open; may my question be not if the food will come but when © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Click save draft, food, help, help me, nourishment, starving, sustenance | Leave a comment

But first, we must have the courage to die

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged blindness, Click save draft, courage, darkness, death, help, help me, life, misery, resurrection, safety | Leave a comment

Social media

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged busyness, Click save draft, contemplation, focus, meditation, samurai, Social media, technology | Leave a comment

Gifts of eternal thickness

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Somewhere, someone is praying for you, perhaps by name, perhaps in praying for the world; but even if the latter is true, the thing about prayer is that it can never be spread too thin: Somewhere, someone is praying for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Click save draft, God, help, help me, intercession, prayer, praying, spirit, writing | Leave a comment