Writing a Poem…
As I get ready for the year-long LIFE project I’m about to embark upon, I thought it would be a nice change to spend some time writing a poem.
This poem I crafted from thoughts that were milling in my heart – of learning about acceptance and accepting the things I cannot change with grace. I wrote it shortly after meditating and sipping my morning tea.
I approached this as an “intuitive” activity.
I wrote what was on my heart and mind.
Then I went back and created rhyming lines that perpetuated the meaning of the poem.
Indeed, the world always has good and bad existing simultaneously, but it’s where we focus our thoughts that everything matters.
We can focus on the darkness, or we can look to the light.
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I also have included a drawing/coloring I completed to complement this poem.
The image below is sized large enough that you can right-click and use it as wallpaper. Down below, you can enter your email to get a coloring page, and a meditation page (the colored-in version) of the Peace, Hope and Love image.
I will also send the original artwork to the first person who messages me – and I’ll smudge it before sending so that you may have peace, hope and love in your own life. 🙂
Peace, Hope, and Finding Love
In a world that seems so hostile, with crooked politicians and rising rates of poverty,
I would look into my heart for a modicum of discovery,
But instead I look to the sky,
to my relations looking down and ask why.
Do not ask this, they tell me.
It is you who needs to change, they decree.
When the sorrows of soured relationships fill your heart,
When the despair of human suffering tears you apart,
Ask not why.
Instead, look into your mind’s eye.
Go into your soul.
Connect to the Universe, and practice self-control.
Our perceptions, our feelings, our emotions color what is.
A desired outcome, an attachment, all contribute to this –
The pretext of our suffering.
The great masters, for millennia, have been uttering –
You already know this.
But your heart chooses a different way to exist.
Look into your soul.
Connect to the threshold…
Connect to yourself.
In your Silent Knowing, the answers once withheld
Unveil as silent flying doves –
Only then will you understand that all is love.
You will understand that from the eternal infinity of before,
To the eternal infinitude of thenceforth,
All is perfection in its essence.
Suffering may be present,
But so is its opposite –
What must remain constant is your deliberate
Action to live in service and be euphoric.
It is then that your own suffering, anxiety and despair
Will then diminish in a prayer,
Leaving room only for the Light.
Om is a wavelength united
With the ripples of love, animated…
In perfection – of all that is sacred.
Too many are disconnected –
Their hearts profoundly affected:
Too much artificiality, too much to hold,
Too much attachment, and love for almighty gold.
It’s simplicity that matters,
It’s love that is our master,
Ignoring that power,
Will cause us to flounder.
Only a pure heart
Is free as a skylark.
I hope you enjoyed this poem. 🙂
And before I close, I wanted to share that I am nearing completion of the Tree of Life coloring meditation book. I would like to send a free physical copy to my subscribers. Please contact me and let me know if you’re interested.
I love the poem! I could hear someone performing this poem orally. It has so much rhythm and drive! It gets me fired up!
Vicki – I consider you to be quite the poet, so hearing this feedback from you is extra special. 🙂 I’m thinking of you as you get ready for the move and the other changes – so proud of you for making the move and living exactly how you want to. Stay fired up, amiga. You are awesome!
It comes as no surprise to me, Lil Sis, that we think along the same path. My first job is to become a loving and peaceful person. Then I branch out into my community, spreading that same message through my actions. I have little hope for national politicians, but I know a band of determined people can change their own community and bring peace to it. I firmly believe that.
Wonderful post, Lil Sis! Sending hugs your way.
BB – you are becoming wise, Grasshopper. I aspire to this: love and peace through our actions. You do an amazing job of embracing and branching out into the community in which you live – I love to watch and see all the fantastic things you do! I think we all have little hope in terms of politics, but grassroots amazing people can change the world. I firmly believe that, too. 🙂
Sending you hugs and I hope you have a great week!
Wonderful poem full of hope and wisdom. May we live from love, looking for and encouraging the best in each other.
blessings, Brad
Brad – thank you! And cheers to that: to living from love, looking out for and encouraging each other. Just imagine (and of course, I thought of the Beetles song, haha)! I hope you have a wonderful week and sending you blessings as well!
I truly believe that I am getting huge messages from the universe today. This poem was part of it. Thanks.
And Tree of Life book – yes definitely!
Hey, Lisa. 🙂 I LOVE it when that happens! I think it’s God/Universe/Great Spirit/etc.’s way of gently moving us in the direction in which we’re supposed to go. I’m glad this poem could be part of it. And thanks about the Tree of Life book! YAY! 🙂
Beautifully written my friend and so spot on – it all starts with us and loving ourselves and spreading the love out there. The part that rang so true was this line – “too much artificiality”. There’s just too much of it in the world today and it’s too easy to go down that path. Thanks for the wonderful reminder to just go inwards and be true. Love it! x
Melanie – oh, it makes me smile so big that you liked this. 🙂 And to have it resonate just means so much to me. Going inwards does make it easier to digest what’s going on in the world. Love your comment, your words and friendship. Sending big hugs! xo
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Such a brilliant poem Cyndi.. So many levels it touches.
Yes, ” too many are disconnected “.. And I agree it is often ” Simplicity that matters” as we reconnect to our hearts and I love the Ommmmm is a wavelength united … Brilliant..
So cleverly weaved,..
Sorry I am late in arriving, now to your latest post.. 🙂
Sending Much Love dear friend xx <3
Sue – oh, this just warms my heart! You’re an awesome poet, so hearing your feedback makes my heart swell! 🙂 Hehe…I love “intuitively” writing these poems. Perhaps I should do more. 🙂 Thank you for your sweet comment. Looking forward to reading the next one. Hugs! xo
Lovely poem, Cynthia 🙂
I would love to get your new book and thank you for this great offer.
Irene – aww, thank you. I think I need to do that more often, hehe. Glad you’re interested in the coloring book. 🙂 As time gets closer, I’ll message you for your mailing address. Sending hugs and hopes for a wonderful week! xo
You are most welcome Cyndi.. And some of my better poems were always written intuitively.. I always know when they are being guided, often I wake in the night, prompted to pick up my journal, as I always have one ready to record dreams and such..
The great thing I have found when they are channelled.. is that you do not stop to think about what line comes next.. It just flows..
They come faster than other poems.. and I never need to alter any lines to fit and make rhyme,,
Yet when I consciously sit to create a poem.. I am often scribbling out words and altering lines..
So most of my poetry is written in the small wee hours of the night.. And I am so grateful for those who I know stand by my side unseen who guide my thoughts and my hand..
I have written a poem yesterday.. in waking hours that I wanted to create to help bring awareness to homelessness..
A friend blogger who is extremely intelligent has founded a blog for him and his companion homeless friends to share their poetry, visions and experiences via the written word of imagination and poems
I spent a lot longer with this.. The first few verse came so fast.. then after that I had to use my brain to finish it off..
I also spent a little time creating two images.. in PowerPoint.. for the poem.. which is a first for me.. but I felt inspired to do so, so went with the flow of it..
I hope to post soon.. As I link the blog to it..
So when ever you feel inspired.. Just keep within the flow of it and it will create itself..
Love and Mega Hugs dear friend.. So loving what you are doing my friend.. ( wished we lived closer, lol, and we would never stop chatting over our Green teas.. 🙂
Hugs again.. Sue <3 xxx
Sue – I love this! For so many reasons. That’s really wonderful, fascinating and awesome that poetry works that way for you. In the past couple of years, I have written poems this way, more often than not. But, poetry and I weren’t good friends until I became an adult and then I realized it was artistry with words – like painting on a canvas. I was approaching it from a too-rigid perspective. When I relaxed and took it for what it was, I began to love it.
And you’re right: they come faster than other poems. It’s pretty incredible how it happens if you get into a meditative state (or coming from a dream state) and just letting it flow. I did that with this one, but then after finishing, I wanted to make it rhyme. It just seemed to “want” that, so I went with it, hehe.
But you’re absolutely right: if I just “sit down to write a poem” it feels forced and it’s harder to do. I wait until I’m in the right state of mind – which is also why I don’t do poems more often – it’s more about that creative penn that emerges from the heart and suddenly the fountain starts flowing. 🙂
I cannot wait to see your blog and what you painted with your words. I know the images, metaphors and elements will bubble to the surface to create something profound. And bringing awareness to homelessness…this is wonderful! I keep thinking about ways I want/should help humanity…and I’m not always sure how. But you have given me a couple ideas. 🙂
Thank you for your inspiration, and your beautiful heart – so full of encouraging thoughts, words and actions. Mega hugs to you; I hope you have a wonderful week. And I would *love* to visit you in the UK sometime. One of these days…and chat for hours over tea. 🙂 More hugs to you, xoxo.
Loved your reply Cyndi.. and do you ever stop to read what you just wrote.. In itself it is so poetic
“it’s more about that creative penn that emerges from the heart and suddenly the fountain starts flowing”
Just beautiful… Have a wonderful week my friend.. and yes… that is a cosmic date to meet over that cuppa.. 🙂
Sue – hehe, I love trying to string words together to make them sound pretty and make the days brighter. <3 You have made my day in saying this. Sending you hugs and I hope you've had a wonderful week! Yes...cosmic date for a cuppa. I love it! 😉