Tag Archives: sun

The sun still rises

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Still, the sun rises.Even if I were to write no poems and fall mutethe sun, still, would rise.That is both infuriating and comforting.Things are not that bad to stop the turning of the earthand the swirling of the cosmos;the power … Continue reading →

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Good Friday Sun Meditation

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

You woke me up with gentle song caressed my spirit and bade me sit in my prayer chair. Sit with me. It is dawn on Good Friday and that still means something for you. So I did, wanting to be … Continue reading →

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Glowing with sun

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

After three days of rain the grasses glow with sun and astonished, we look up © Meisaan Chan

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Increments

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The sun does not flounce into the sky with one brilliant leap but slowly crawls up the canvas in its own shifting light – even the most important thing to the earth comes in increments! – so, too, with discipline, … Continue reading →

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Celestial prayer

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The sun is silent and so the moon: reflect the silence reflect the light © Meisaan Chan

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The unfeared descent

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The sun knows its slow descent but note how it does not just go out: at its lowest point, it unfurls its majesty, its moment of greatest open giving © Meisaan Chan  

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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   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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