Breakout

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Bird in a cage
Jewel in a vault
Children in four walls

Is this what we do
Cage our most precious
Keep out of harms way?

Wings lose span width
Jewels lose luster
Children lose vivacity

What more have we trapped
What else have we subdued
Do we even know!

Gripped by convention
Cuddled by mediocrity
Fooled by routines and rituals

Do you hear your heart beat
Can you feel your spirit soar
Have you explored the caverns of your being?

Cut the ties with judgement
Break free of inevitable regret
Explore what you can dream of

No skydiving necessary
No heroics mandated
Just desire a sincere fulfillment

Despite the climate
Regardless of obligations
Hold fast to your blessing

Breathe light the life
Leave struggle to the unwilling
And find yourself in all that runs free

Valentine

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Enigmatic?
Perhaps.
Mysterious?
Possibly..
Debonair?
Perfectly!

Displaying a variety of character
Enjoying the diversity of life’s adventures
Summoning a multitude of assets
All in a day’s play of living…

When all the layers removed
Naked truth revealed
No embellishment required
The best of all awaits

No sleeve for the heart
Magnanimously exposed,
No diluted passion
Raw yet gentle,
Completely present
For just the task at hand,
Giving fully of all
Mind, body and spirit!!

Float on by…

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Move towards something
And it gets closer,
True for everything
But the clouds!
They just never
Seem to get closer!

You take a step
They take a float

Even when finally
In a hot air balloon,
Your put your whole self
Straight into its belly,
Still nothing to grasp
Nothing to hold!

Yet all the while
Still there all around!

Such is breath.
You can feel it
You can even watch it
Without it
You cannot be!

Can you hold it?
Can you bottle it?
Can you save it for a later day?

Just as the clouds
Shower a love,
So does breath
Ultimate lover’s love.

Just as the clouds
Transport droplets from air to land,
So does breath
Link strong, you and your source.

So before it’s too late
And breath floats on by,
Connect and secure
The link on your side.

Acknowledge each one
As they come and go,
Bringing the possibilities
For what it’s all about.

Love and enjoy
Acknowledge and appreciate,
Revel in gratitude
And let each breath
Be its wait in gold!

Live, Love, Laugh.

imageLive from your soul
To your heart‘s content
With commitment of mind

Love with all your heart
With soulful sincerity
No room for doubt in mind

Laugh with mindful humor
Bringing together hearts
Enabling souls their peaceful rest

Touched

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Five senses.
But how ‘touch’ wins the show!

Grasp of the finger
Pulling on a pet’s tail
Smearing food on table tops.
Oh how children touch!

A stroke on the cheek
Gliding fingers through hair
Lips to lips.
Oh how lovers touch!

Touch is the one sense
Meeting and surpassing all others.

The song of the nightingale
The magnificence of the orchestral play
The lapping of soothing waves
All heard by the ears
But how it ‘touches’ you…

The first rays of morning light
The buds of spring’s delight
The ripple of fine muscular might
All seen by the eyes
But oh how it ‘touches’ you!

Warm welcome handshakes
Acquaintances made.
Sitting snug side by side
Friendships old and gold.
Embraces long and lasting
Lovers trademark sold.
Such is the power of touch ..

Do you remember how to touch?
Or have you become
“Proper”
“Well behaved ”
Respectful of personal space!

Reach, stretch and touch
Get uncomfortable
So you can get comfortable,
Feel that which is around you
Listen with you ears
See your your eyes

Feel with your entire being
And be ‘touched’,
So you can get in-touch
With being a ‘being’!

Liebster Blog Award

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Many thanks to Imperfection is Beauty at https://yeye2188.wordpress.com a great blog and blogger.

This award is another way of introducing new comers to the wordpress blog community. The following are the rules, breakable if needed; and also my answers to questions posed by my nominator, eleven facts about me and my eleven questions to my nominees…enjoy the read!

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Be sure to send link to your nominees..

Your participation is completely optional..

Facts about me:

1. I love the aroma and sound of food as I cook

2. I love trees even more than flowers

3. I protected my daughter from a raging German Shepard

4. I like having pajama days

5. I like dusty old bookstores

6.  I love to feel the sun and hear the lapping of waves

7. I like to share a beer and sandwiches …..

8. I cant ride a bike and would like to

9. I like the thrill of heights even though it scares me

10. I was a premature baby

11. I am in awe of true living wisdom how ever it comes to light

 

My answers!!

  1. The point is to figure out the point! Why are you here!
  2. I find happiness in the little things that make me smile, perhaps its a memory, perhaps how someone made me feel, perhaps its what I have learnt…
  3. Inspiration comes from hope. Hope is the seed of all beginnings and a nurturer for me.
  4. When lost I return to that which makes me feel found, today this is meditation and yoga, experiences that connect me to me..
  5. I live with my regrets by forgiving myself for lack of understanding and clarity and weaknesses in self esteem and self image.. these are the things that make us susceptible to doing things or not doing them that create regrets in life..
  6. Sadness like any feeling has to be worked through, so I cry,  I feel the sadness and then I look beyond the sadness and realize that I had the opportunity to feel good about that which now makes me sad.
  7. If money was no object I would like to travel, meet more people see more beautiful things in this world and also give freely of the skills of have acquired to help feed the ailing and dying.
  8. What must I experience before my time is up? Pleasures of the senses beyond my current exposure, I hope that travel opportunities will bring this.. And to know that I have understood universal laws and nature to fulfill my time the way my creator envisaged I could.
  9. Today’s projected accomplishment-to better accept the things I cannot change.
  10. Who is the most interesting person I have met? His name is Bill Hubert, he is the founding creator of a brain/body integration program, Bal-A-Vis-X, applicable for use with people of all ages of most all kinds for functioning and disability. I choose him as he is a man who has shown incredible dedication to helping children as he began his quest to overcome the issue of kids falling through the educational cracks and getting lost in the system when they were neither bad enough or good enough to get the right help.
  11. My latest great idea is for a ‘phone check-in’ at my next dinner party this Saturday in an attempt to get everyone to be ‘present’ !! Wish me luck.

 

My Nominees

https://penumbrahaiku.wordpress.com

https://itsaloveuntold.wordpress.com

https://tdanceoflife.wordpress.com

https://gazingatmoons.wordpress.com

https://iambloggertoo.wordpress.com

http://bobbyyadav.wordpress.com

https://pragalbhadoshi.wordpress.com

 

My questions:

1. If you could live back in time when and where would you choose and why..

2.  What do you think will be the greatest invention in the future

3.  What is the best t.v. show in your opinion

4. What book have you enjoyed the most

5. Who was your favorite teacher and why

6. Which parent influenced you the most and how

7.  How do you think we can contribute to peace

8. What do you think is man’s greatest achievement

9.  What do you think is man’s worst behavior

10.  What do you like to do for fun

11.  If you could travel into space would you go

Have fun with my questions and don’t forget to let me know if you accept the award!!