When your listening
takes the shape of sky
I feel your heart
hearing mine
My tears –
frozen
lonely
frightened,
feel safe,
welcome this quiet
invitation to melt
and
flow into your caring field
Questions for Contemplation
Is there is a particular line or stanza in this poem that resonates with you? If so, a suggestion is to use the line or lines as a writing prompt and then free write for 10-15 minutes in response to the words. If you like, you can review what you wrote and take some quiet time to reflect on an idea or phrase that speaks to you.
You can also write your own poem, simply beginning each stanza with “Peace when I….” or, perhaps, Joy, Strength, Courage or (fill in the blank) when I…..
Poem a Month Archive
- Silent Welcome
- Peace When…
- Spring Sun and Sadness
- When Fear Arrives
- EARTHMOTHERLOVE
- Are They Really?
- Poems Want to Help Us
- LOVEANDPAIN
- Dark Welcome
- POETSPEAK
- What Are Your Words?
- Poems Paintings Songs
- When the Icy Tensions Thaw
- Telling Your Daughter
- To Let Ourselves Happen
- Always Here
- Dark Odyssey
- Cups That Will Always Break
- Ask the Children
- Not Knowing
- Love Will Show Us
- In Remembrance – Mary Oliver
- QUIET
- The Way of Pain
- Can We Be Love?