Category Archives: poetry

Despair

Posted on February 13, 2019 by debbiej1111

I had an epiphany today when I was writing in my grateful journal. I noticed there was something different about what I was writing. They were things that just came to me unbidden, just flowing and I don’t know how … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Beauty

Posted on May 30, 2015 by debbiej1111

I look at her and she is oblivious to what I see, to what I know.  This thought is amusing in a way, it is also full of melancholy for it is her lack of confidence that keeps this knowledge … Continue reading →

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My Daughter Asleep

Posted on December 2, 2014 by debbiej1111

Carrying a child, I carry a bundle of sleeping future appearances. I carry my daughter adrift on my shoulder, dreaming her slender dreams and I carry her beneath the window, watching her moon lit palm open and close like a … Continue reading →

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Let it Be

Posted on October 25, 2014 by debbiej1111

They sang this song at my daughter’s middle school music program.  Right away when they said they were going to sing it I was excited.  I love this song and actually had not heard it for a very long time.  … Continue reading →

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Conversation

Posted on October 22, 2014 by debbiej1111

Recently I have been introduced to the poetry of David Whyte. I think perhaps I was looking over some notes I took from my spiritual class and there was a reference in it about a poem from David Whyte that … Continue reading →

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Sweet Darkness

Posted on October 6, 2014 by debbiej1111

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you … Continue reading →

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She

Posted on August 25, 2014 by debbiej1111

She was the kind of person that lived without labels, with a brain full of tales and a heart full of fables. Silently slipping through the shadows, passing through lives, taking the arrows. by Kenzie

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Santiago

Posted on April 25, 2014 by debbiej1111

The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take, the road dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up, when you thought … Continue reading →

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A Cushion for Your Head

Posted on March 25, 2014 by debbiej1111

Just sit there right now Don’t do a thing Just rest. For your separation from God, From love, Is the hardest work In this World. Let me bring you trays of food And something That you like to Drink. You … Continue reading →

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When Death Comes

Posted on December 5, 2013 by debbiej1111

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle pox; when death comes like … Continue reading →

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