Blink
July 15, 2013 By Jana H White in Poetry Tags: being human, Chaos, Creativity, Insight, Light, Love, Nature, Perception, Quantum physics, Spirit, Spiritual Practice, spirituality 12 Comments
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I don’t fear melting into this earth.
Each morning
I wake into the air
I do not rise I do not move
I do not open my eyes
until my nose has sensed persuasion
my tongue has tasted sweetness
and my ears have heard the world
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I was a child with dreams of becoming
Now I am older with dreams of being
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Transformed
Nothing and everything is changing.
I am like a snake shedding its skin
and
biting its tail
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erasing the lines
of time
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Facing the window overlooking the garden
I am blindfolded,
a veil over my eyes.
Taken into this darkest of rooms, I wonder
If I am blindfolded…how am I seeing in this darkness?
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All you see is the glow from the warming fire
The cold night
the bright moon
your breath in the air
Stillness
I often pull myself together in the YWCA pool, swimming laps… water therapy. I joined the Y initially to cure my fear of deep water. I can float and swim but for some reason when I try to tread water I sink to just above my nose. For months I dangled around in the deep end with a very large floaty. Then I discovered swim fins. Continue reading