Poetry and Mandala – On Emerging

December 2, 2017 by

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when your companion is the tick
of the second-hand
– and your heart beat

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awaiting first light
so still in the house
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be it thunder, hail, snow squall
– or a brewing wild within

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in calm or angst
with joy or grief,
– take up your pen and paper

see And in keen or chant, praise or lament,
in raised voice or sultry whisper,
(remember this)
– all is sacred and profane

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turn your words into phrases
and phrases into lines
– invite unruliness and ecstasy too

https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/4hwqdyvz Take up your pen,
invoke madness or muse
Take up your pen and write
– then, poetry emerges.

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Thanksgiving Blessing and Mandala

November 22, 2017 by

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and all moments in between.

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interminable wait or – paradoxically –
too much action. A blur, a flash, a crash.

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Bless me, sitting at my desk
as filtered November light slips
through my window
and casts its blessing
upon these written words.

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In the midst of the ordinary and mundane
In between the common and the trivial.

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a relentless awareness of what is.
Bless that.

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the firelight,
the dark shiver and the cold.

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and the dreamer;
Bless the seeds resting in frozen earth
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Bless the lakes and rivers in their icy embrace.

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in our laughter and our weeping.

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which would be missed – with longing –
if they were to disappear.

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Bless us all.

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Contemplative Creative Practices – A Mandala

November 20, 2017 by

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Stars in Perspective Mandala

November 18, 2017 by

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go here My thoughts were too swirly as I considered the issues before me: a friendship once full of hope and promise now drifting away like a column of smoke; complicated relationships with both my aging mother and my disabled sister; conversations with a mentor parsing the differences between relationships that take and relationships that give. And then there remained the world beyond my door, a constant thorn and source of anxiety. Complicated stuff.

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I read: “Fourth graders have been learning about one-point perspective as a way to create the illusion of space.” An illusion of space! If it is good enough for fourth graders, it is certainly good enough for me!

So I created the Stars in Perspective Mandala and as I created the various “explosions in space” I considered various perspectives to my issues at hand and wondered how I might see the space in which I am currently adrift as gift and blessing, not as a dark hole I try repeatedly and unsuccessfully to escape.

My contemplative creative practice at work by way of mandala creation and poetry reading.

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Under the Sea, A Garden – A Mandala

January 26, 2017 by

 

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