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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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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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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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Unending Love

Posted on November 1, 2013 by debbiej1111

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your … Continue reading →

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The God Who Only Knows Four Words

Posted on October 18, 2013 by debbiej1111

Every Child Has Known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don’ts, Not the God who ever does Anything weird, But the God who only knows four words And keeps repeating them, saying: “Come dance with Me” … Continue reading →

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Your Mother and My Mother

Posted on September 12, 2013 by debbiej1111

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living In better conditions, For your mother and my mother Were friends. I know the Innkeeper In this part of the universe. Get some rest tonight, … Continue reading →

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