Let My Muse Lead
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What happens when you let your muse take the lead?
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Lighthouse
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A lighthouse warns of danger, serves as a guide, and stands present whether we succeed in our journey or fail in the effort. It is both a beacon of light and a tower of forgiveness. We may be at the mercy of the world, but this poem asks: Are we the lighthouse? Are we present and accountable to all things in our life?
Read MoreA Breath Away
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Astonishment may be the only appropriate response to the experience of being alive....
What we see, hear, and feel in the world around us
is just a step away, just a breath away,
from immersion in amazement.
Ride Into The Day
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I often enjoy an early morning walk to start the day and especially so when I am in a place near the beauty of nature. This provides me mindful moments, an opportunity to connect with myself, and restore my balance with the world before the demands and desires of the day steal my attention. This is also a good time for me to dictate my intent for the day, which, like today, while on the south bay bike path near the Doubletree Hotel in Burlingame, often becomes a poem.
Read MoreAppointment
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On occasion, my writing takes me deep into a spiritual realm and I am shy to share it because I have no religious credentials and no spiritual affiliation to cite as a source. Perhaps I drink from the same well as the mystic poets, Rumi or Hafiz...or perhaps it is because I have an appointment...
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I Shouldn't Say it, but...
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How can we put love into words? How can we say what is in our hearts when we tremble before the beloved in a world that judges these feeling as weakness. How can we say the things we don't know how to say, or believe we can't or shouldn't say? There is no better way than through poetry!
Read MoreUnbroken Ring
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In matters of the heart, let your intuition guide you. Listen for the worthy one, knocking on the door of your dreams, heart open, calling you to step across the threshold into the unbroken ring that bonds all lovers together throughout time. This is your invitation. Open the door.
Read MoreWhat We Have
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Our's is an intimacy we may whisper in our hearts...
What We Have is a poem excerpted from my 2016 Valentine's Day Poety E-Book
Read MoreBearing Witness
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Chinese New Year comes with the new moon on February 8th. I wrote this poem just before the Western New Year in December, 2015, but it seems even more appropriate for the Chinese Holiday!
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