Tag Archives: love

To help you

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I am limitless with both arms and light, everything reaching out to help you © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Fear and love

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

True fear binds with a million leashes; true love breaks through them all © Meisaan Chan

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Before the fury of the day: The five-minute prayer

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have five minutes to love you as I wish and the rest of the day to love you as you wish © Meisaan Chan

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The bypassing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I grow fat with love sometimes the times are lean: free me from all this and connect me to that umbilical cord which bypasses famine, drought, delight © Meisaan Chan

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Water at your ankles

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Warm water at your ankles the human talks gently, softly as the sun rises, all is bathed again © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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Divine persistence

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you love me! All the ways I run away! All the ways you love me! © Meisaan Chan

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Nocturne

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Crickets lulling me to sleep A congregation of stars above my ceiling My hair, damp, twisted with moonlight: Love surrounds and surrounds and surrounds and when I least expect, penetrates © Meisaan Chan

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In gratitude

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you love me! I give you my most costly gift: I unlock another door © Meisaan Chan

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Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan as if it were one big origami crane slowly unwrapping, wanting to fly away from itself; in times like these, protect me from self-loathing, where I could so easily crumple it all up … Continue reading →

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One sign of the sacred path

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

is when loving someone goes from a response to a choice © Meisaan Chan

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