in seven days
the radish sprouts
push green through earth—
every job on my list today
seems quite easy
Posts Tagged ‘84’
One Humbling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, poem, poetry, spring, work on May 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »
No Wonder We’re Smiling So Wide
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, one heart, one love, poem, poetry, radiance, unity on March 23, 2012| 5 Comments »
It rhymes,
this light
that shines
in me
each time
I shed
the shuck
of self,
rhymes with
this light
in you
And They Slip By, Slip By
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, blossom, forever, poems, poetry, radiance, spring, the moment, video on March 20, 2012| 2 Comments »
Look what happens
given warmth
given light—
deep fields of shining bloom
and every moment
is
forever
Though It Seems Crazy to Wish for It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, blessings, breaking open, life, poems, poetry, radiance, video poem on March 13, 2012| 8 Comments »
After we break
we learn there is always
more to break
and
O
the more
we break the more
our light radiates
Put in my Place
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, light, loss of separate self, poems, poetry, radiance, unity on March 6, 2012| 4 Comments »
stepping
into the morning sun
oh and oh!
so sweet to be
reminded
my own light
so little
and not
even
mine
Seeing It for Perhaps the First Time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, darkness, freedom, independence, light, poems, poetry, radiance on March 3, 2012| 4 Comments »
It was dim
then
starless
who would guess
this was a gift
now whatever path
there is
is lit
by my own
light
The Second Law of Thermodynamics Gives a Pep Talk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, hope, inspiration, light, poems, poetry, radiance, thermodynamics on March 3, 2012| 1 Comment »
Even the tiniest
coldest
most distant
atoms
in the universe
release
light
my dear one
it is not
so dark
*
*
This is the first in a series of 84-character poems on radiance, one of the 11 powers of the universe that Brian Swimme outlines in EnlightenNext. He writes, “In my view, the power of radiance is an expression of the mysterious way in which the universe cannot contain the magnificence it houses. Instead, it is compelled to express itself in ten million different ways.”
Joel Reminds Me Where We’ve Come From
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, interrelatedness, peace, poems, poetry, unity on February 26, 2012| 4 Comments »
And when ten thousand
million
of us realize
our souls rhyme
what will we do then
with our guns
our hands
From Only a Few Hundred Miles Away
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, butterfly effect, chaos theory, connection, interrelatedness, poem, poetry on February 25, 2012| 1 Comment »
If a butterfly flutter in Brazil
can cause a Texas tornado
no wonder
I felt on the wind today
your hands
Walking to the River with my Three-Year-Old Girl
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, emptiness, growing, parenting, poems, poetry, transformation on February 21, 2012| 2 Comments »
last night’s snow
fills in the spaces
where we’ve been
so many emptinesses
in our wake
some never fill
And Beneath That …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, crack, darkness, light, poems, poetry, transformation on February 19, 2012| 2 Comments »
Both the light and the shadow are at home in the heart.
–Jan Garrett & JD Martin, “Love Wins”
The shell
cracks
the fracture
gaps
and light
streams in
to reveal
another shell
not yet
begun
to
crack
Not a Test, a Practice (another transformation 84)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, god, happiness, looking inside, poem, rain, test, transformation on January 2, 2012| 1 Comment »
the day
I told God
I learned
how to find
happiness
on the inside
God sent me
sixty days of rain
just to see
Listening to the Place Inside
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, change, integrity, poem, rhyme, silence, transformation on December 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
New song
new drum
new groove
new hum
new rhythm
new hit
new favorite
and silence
does not change
one bit.
And So Many Holes and Dropped Stitches
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, knitting, poem, transformation on December 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
learning to knit
I imagine
we are made
of the same cloth
one thread
many knots
&
what
shape
will we take?
What’s Working on Us Even Now?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, lose the self, snowmen, transformation on December 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
the snowmen
make it look
easy
to lose the self
they do not
ask how
nor does
the sun
ask permission
to help
And So Live
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, brian swimme, choices, transmutation on October 25, 2011| 2 Comments »
at the splitting of paths
there is no sign
transform
or die
tough choice
till we realize
we must do both
*This is the first in a series of 84-character poems about transmutation, Brian Swimme’s seventh power of the universe. In EnlightenNext, he writes, “This is the way in which the universe sometimes insists that something new come forth. … When Earth finally emerged and brought forth bacteria, why didn’t the universe just call it a day? Isn’t it enough that tiny pieces of Earth jump with life? Apparently not. Our universe is a self-transcending community of beings, and transcendence is often a necessity.”
What Happened to Synergy?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, compost, failure, synergy on October 22, 2011| 1 Comment »
a heap of twigs
leaves
& grass
should compost
two years later
I still have
a heap of twigs
leaves
& grass
This is Just to Say …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, everything, nothing, synergy on October 18, 2011| 2 Comments »
it’s probably yours
the nothing
found today
on my hike
thank you
between
the leaves
the spaces
so
open
Really?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, irony, synergy on October 16, 2011| 1 Comment »
you break
and I break
and in the breaking
a writhing, grisly
foul mess—
and what are
these petals
I see
?
The Scientist Says Synergy, the Woman Says Miracle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, fire, song, synergy on October 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
Beside the fire
a man begins
a rhythmic
drone
and another
man is roused
to song
and another
and another
+
I can’t say
where it comes from
the urge in me
to sing
along
but
soon
I too
become
night
music—
not a
woman
+
but the shape
of song
that belongs
more to all
than any
one can
make
like how
seven sisters
constellate
*these 84s, 84-character poems, are part of a new series on synergy, the sixth power of the universe as outlined by Brian Swimme. It refers to a synergistic relationship that gives birth to causal factors in the universe that would not otherwise exist. It shows the ontological power of relationship.