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last updated 01/06/08
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"Being Deeply Loved by Someone Gives You Strength; Loving Someone Deeply Gives You Courage" -Lao Tzu
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lost muse

repeatedly I return
to the corners you once dwelled
words sprinkled upon clouds
dancing in harmony
souls knew
what was to come
where am I to find my muse
when time has buried you
from my reach
I seek yet an inspiration
to find within a sculpture
a melodic poem
a sunrise peeking beyond
its radiance
allure uncovered in the velvet
touch of a rose
caressing the skin
if the muse is not to be found
does the spirit die of thirst
seeking life after life?
to be embraced by desire is
the muse that I crave

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Beloved

I am a sculptor, a molder of form.
In every moment I shape an idol.
But then, in front of you, I melt them down
I can rouse a hundred forms
and fill them with spirit,
but when I look into your face,
I want to throw them in the fire.
My souls spills into yours and is blended.
Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance,
I cherish it.
Every drop of blood I spill
informs the earth,
I merge with my Beloved
when I participate in love.
In this house of mud and water,
my heart has fallen to ruins.
Enter this house, my Love, or let me leave.
– RuMi

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My Friends

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Escaping Ponders

I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without compl... read more
Sun, February 10, 2008 - 11:21 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
I remember you as you were last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the still heart.
In your eyes the flames of twilight fought on.
And the leaves fell on the water of your soul.

Clasping my arms like a climbing plant
the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace.
Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning.
Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul.

I feel your eyes traveling, and the autumn is far off:
grey beret, voice of bird, heart like a house,
towards which ... read more
Sun, February 10, 2008 - 10:36 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
I fear I'm all dried up.... the past months touched by life's unmerciful hand. I digested only loss & grief. I buried my heart deep underground to hide from fake smiles and to heal my wounds. Gray clouds lingered over my cave as the sun smiled upon others. I wrapped myself with blankets of blacks and blues, of apathy and loss. Unknowingly when I granted myself permission to hibernate, all the while, my creativity slowly dissolved.
After the storm, with a sudden urge to rise from my slumber a... read more
Sun, January 6, 2008 - 3:57 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
I have been tricked by flying too close
to what I thought I loved.

Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled,
and the lovers have withdrawn
somewhere beyond my squinting.

The amount I thought I'd won, I've lost.
My prayers becomes bitter and all about blindness.

How wonderful it was to be for a while
with those who surrender.

Others only turn their faces on way,
then another, like pigeon in flight.

I have known pigeons who fly in a nowhere,
and birds that eat grainl... read more
Sun, October 28, 2007 - 9:07 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pol... read more
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 2:21 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
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Leaning Inward

When I lean inward I rediscover my center and once again anchored to an inner wholeness.
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Awaiting My Muse

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Essence

about me
Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
– Rumi

O My Beloved
O my beloved Eternity,

Do not forget me.

From this moment on, I shall always

Remember you.

O my beloved Infinity,

Do not desert me.

From this moment on, I shall always

Love you.

O my beloved Immortality,

Do not disown me.

From this moment on, I shall always

Claim you.

- Sri Chinmoy
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