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WILEY JOHN
"Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall" AND I did that yesterday Wiley John..my defenses just broke down..I'm sorry. And so I am doing as you say and dance before the next great inhale. Thank you ever so much for the most loveliest poem...and your sincerest kindness shown to me.
posted by
shobana
on August 16, 2010 at 5:43 PM
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the other side
What's the matter, love?
posted by
2902
on August 16, 2010 at 5:36 PM
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Poignant imagery my Shobana! I am going to approach it from an imagery basis and it does have a universal quality to it; one that many can relate to as well! As a poet it is wonderful to impact the reader as I see you have done here so very eloquently! I posted last night and then went to be; I should have checked comment and saw you were out; sorry I missed you but love you dearly! Your sam
posted by
sam444
on August 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM
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Shobana
I sent this to Kabu once and she loved it. Npw WE are sending it to you with all of our love,may it be love that can raise you up to the joy of the God of our understanding.
The Dance
I have sent you my invitation,
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.
Don’t jump up and shout, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!”
Just stand up quietly and dance with me.
Show me how you follow your deepest desires,
spiraling down into the ache within the ache,
and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward
to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day.
Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.
Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.
Tell me a story of who you are,
and see who I am in the stories I live.
And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.
Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day.
Show me you can risk being completely at peace,
truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,
and again in the next and the next and the next. . .
I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.
Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,
the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.
What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?
And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving
those we once loved out loud.
Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance,
the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart.
And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.
Show me how you take care of business
without letting business determine who you are.
When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price,
let us remind each other that it is never about the money.
Show me how you offer to your people and the world
the stories and the songs
you want our children’s children to remember.
And I will show you how I struggle not to change the world,
but to love it.
Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude,
knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging.
Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words,
holding neither against me at the end of the day.
And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest
intentions has died away on the wind,
dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale
of the breath that is breathing us all into being,
not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.
Don’t say, “Yes!”
Just take my hand and dance with me.
© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from the book The Dance, HarperSanFrancisco
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM
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(((Shobana)))
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on August 16, 2010 at 1:50 PM
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You are such a dear loving person you could never fall and must not own the
situation for all you ever bring to everyone is joy. we love you dear one.
posted by
Kabu
on August 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM
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Relationships can be so complicated and dissapointing. Love the imagery, so poignant and skillful, packed with meanings. Best to leave something that has gone bad and always bringing the person down; I agree.
posted by
mariss9
on August 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM
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Love has such a powerful effect on our insides. It can make us feel so wonderful or put us into the depths of despair!
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM
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All of our love is with you as is the Lords. The sun comes up every day and things like these seem to slip away, you will laugh and love again I promise.
posted by
UtahJay
on August 16, 2010 at 10:06 AM
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Your anguish is so clear in these lines
I hope that you find resolution soon
posted by
lionreign
on August 16, 2010 at 7:38 AM
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Dear Shobana, sounds like a painful situation indeed
but in these months of reading your kind and honest nature, I find it hard to believe you could be to blame, even unintentionally. Perhaps I'm assuming too much without all the details, yet I feel from personal experience that interaction between parties or factions is more complex and complicated than seen on the surface. And you are so right, love should not be a game of sunless moves playing for ego inflation- how empty and meaningless that air!...Should be open and clear light, even in times of darker haunts - if only others would hold that wisdom as dear. Your poem resonates, my friend.
posted by
Katray2
on August 16, 2010 at 5:15 AM
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Re:
Hi CC, I'm sorry ..just that I know what is going on here to be honest and I hate to be the cause of it all. I don't know why but I don't want not one of them hurt CC and I just want everyone to be ok with each other once again. I just hate factions..just hate them . Thank you for the concern CC. Life is not cruel to me CC because I don't let or think of it that way but life is cruel to those who are hurting I think.
posted by
shobana
on August 16, 2010 at 1:40 AM
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I hope this is imagery Shobana you sound so sad and did you really fall. I'm sure every one loves you and who could help not doing so. You are the joy that brings these blogs to life. If you ever feel really sad email me and I will try to cheer you up. You have just lost some one you loved and the world might seem cruel, but you have your daughters and Mum. Thinking of you
posted by
C_C_T
on August 16, 2010 at 1:34 AM
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