Tagged: meditation
stacking cucumbers
stacking cucumbers
for pickling – meditation
in the key of spring
.
20210526:2008
y
in the art that is
in the art that is
kneading, there are mantras and
meditations that
take us deeper and sweeter
than what comes out of the oven
.
20201203:1908
y
you are meditating
you are meditating
while i peel into fifteen
pomegranates, looking
for a pattern, a rhythm,
a mantra to latch
onto that could
somehow make the
detachment effortless
.
20201019:1833
y
we are so good at
we are so good at
centering mondays, drawing
attention to our
breath, body, and posture, along
with any rising sensations
.
20180416:2310
y
some histories
some histories
are just inked
stronger, the
way traces of
an old romance
can remain
visible beneath
St. Augustine’s
meditation on the
psalms. define
renunciation
when your lips
are this close,
deciphering
a way back
.
20130210:1051
y
the moment you have
the moment you have
given too much away comes
at you like a curve
ball, with considerably less
velocity in favor of
breaking. between 65
and 80 miles per hour,
there is just enough time
to take in frustration,
not enough to conduct
a mental body scan,
sidestep the ache
.
20130131:1808
y
opening, closing,
opening, closing,
the pain of absence passes
and passes again
.
20121210:1649
y
if retreating from
if retreating from
the world is finding a way
in, and staying still –
that will be my specialty
a slow sun-dried nom de plume
.
20120724:0831
y
according to the
according to the
National Center for
Atmospheric
Research, on a fair
day, a cumulus
cloud can stampede
across the horizon
with the weight of
one hundred
elephants. all day
long, i am pulling
in my thoughts
with Om
mindfully
leading the herd –
small wonder
awareness gets
crushed when
i stumble
.
20111208:0837
y
at varying degrees, we learn
at varying degrees, we learn
to close our eyes, to be
tempted, to loosen the
hinge on what we see,
to be found –
if held
for a moment
longer,
we could
almost hear the
world tucking
up its edges
as it retreated –
for god’s sake
don’t peek
.
20111025:0824
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