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Category Archives: Devotional Poetry
The Baal Shem Tov
The Baal Shem Tov One might, in turn, believe and not believe in reincarnation, in order to say, “next life, I’d do it happier,” and then embrace this one.
Lord’s Prayer
Lord’s Prayer Boss, we’ve still got that deal. (right?) Give me bread Give me life even when I don’t deserve life in Your eyes. I’ll give life to those who don’t deserve life in my eyes. I’ll make You holy. … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Prayers & Meditations
Tagged covenant, forgiveness, Lord's prayer
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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
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
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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