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Category Archives: Devotional Poetry
Your Monday Blessing: the self
May your find yourself so often and in so many marvellous guises that the I is the aperture to all things
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Tagged Atman, masquerade, photography, poetry, self-fulfillment
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Your Monday Blessing: Your Next Breath
Dear one I am keeping your next breath very close to me I carry it around like a sacred amulet like a child’s toy like the sky itself in my heart with it I walk on the earth dignified and … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, love, poetry, respiration, responsibility
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Good Friday prayer
On this good, good Friday my heart goes out to my companions at Calvary, by which I mean those who are witnesses to the death of life and end of love, those who are broken open like crumbs upon the … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter, Good Friday, hope, Jesus, poetry, resurrection
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The Ocean Forgets
The world remembers; the ocean forgets. All the tablets of sale and gentlemen’s bets, The criminal records and parking fines – Earth’s tear knows not what’s yours, nor cares what’s mine. It just roars on. Keep shouting, dear friend! Mad … Continue reading
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Tagged forgetting, loss, ocean, poetry
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Your Monday Blessing: The Calculus of Prayer
In the morning, when I talk to God, I say, I would love to find a clean pair of boxers waiting for me on the laundry rack, but then don’t worry about me, God; you must have much bigger matters … Continue reading
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Tagged humility, laundry, poetry, prayer, wrestling
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Your Monday(ish) blessing: No Wisdom Whatsoever
I slept well last night, and this morning I managed to not check the news on my phone. I went and drank coffee, sat there. For a moment or two. Found a book of stories on the shelf that spoke … Continue reading
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Tagged meditation, morning, poetry, silence, wisdom
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Your Monday Blessing: Third Sheep from the Left
The third sheep from the left is the holy child. You can see her, in the frame of her mother’s camera, at the heart of the heavens and the earth. In her, the earliest secrets of love are revealed. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Christmas, nativity, poetry
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