Michelle sent in this poem describing her own experience with the transformative forces at work today. Merging with My Higher Self Tapping into the ever-present river of bliss, The underlying truth, The all within. So close by, yet somehow elusive. The smile spreads across my face, while reading light-filled passages, or gazing at a bright […]
William Stafford: Being a Person
William Stafford, poet, lifelong pacifist, and National Book Award winner, was a conscientious objector during WWII, taught at Lewis & Clark College for decades and was Oregon’s beloved poet laureate. His poetry is filled with images of the natural world — flowing water, waving grass, passing seasons. On August 28, 1993, Stafford died of a heart […]
Listening with the Heart
Written in 1987 Streetcar going by. I remember that song. “Did I hear you say You completed the job?” What made the energy so low in here? Am I only listening with the ear? How dull things get when I hear that way. I think to myself: “Can’t you say something new? Something different or […]
I Want You to Know Me Deeply, Truly as I Am
Written in 1986 There’s something I haven’t told you about me. It’s a piece of me I keep locked up inside. I’ve chosen not to be that part of me. I’ve hidden from you and lied about who I am. I’m not available to you then. Neither am I available to me. So sharing with […]