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Category: Poetry
Holding, And Being Held: Learning To Recieve
Holding, And Being Held Let Love In, Allow It To Heal you, And Send It To Others Dec 27, 2024- -Life on Earth is intended to be challenging, and, sometimes, as we meet our challenges, we can forget the glory of our true being, we can be overcome with fear, pain, and suffering, and respond…
A Sip From Your Cup
A Sip From Your Cup There is a cup before you. Lift it, and take a sip. What is there for you to drink? Is it sweet? Is it welcoming? Is it warm, and nourishing, and do you crave more of the elixir within? Or is your cup bitter? Or bland? Does it seem thick?…
Everyday Heaven
Everyday Heaven There is beauty in everything, but it is up to us to find it and honor it. To see the beauty of the world, the beauty of ourselves, is to live in heaven every day. The heaven I speak of is not some far-off, floaty place with clouds, angel wings, and a bearded…
Relax Into Life
Relax Into Life -Select the role you wish to play, and proceed with boldness and confidence. Relax into life, and embrace the Truth of your being, holding at all times an awareness of your beingness, for this determines your impact in the moment. Consciously choose what you feel is appropriate for whatever you are facing,…
Growing Pains
Growing Pains When we are trying to shape something new and different for ourselves, one of the greatest challenges we face is giving ourselves enough space to hold the new energy long enough, explore the new direction far enough, for it to begin to take shape, to gather substance, and become real, our new reality,…
Meet Your Inner Demons
Meet Your Inner Demons March 25, 2024- – Change is happening. It is upon us. Find yourself solid ground to stand upon, so that you may weather the approaching storm without losing your footing. Begin the work where it must begin, inside of you. Don’t try to fix anyone else, don’t try to save the…
Statement of Purpose
Statement of Purpose I AM here today I AM alive How will I live right now? I Will choose what I want I Will picture it I Will move toward it I Will block out distractions I Will find the joy in each moment I Will Love without limit I Will be honest, intentional, present…
Being Silver
Being Silver Silver, unlike gold, requires our participation to retain its sheen. Gold can hold its reflecting surface on its own, but silver tarnishes, and we must polish it to keep its mirror shine. We will one day be golden, transmuted into an irreducible light, but until we achieve that state, we must do the…
Black Clouds
Black Clouds The clouds are black, and pregnant, waiting, ready to deliver life, to the Earth below them. Moving into position, roiling, shifting, bumping one another, in their slow rush to destiny. Lightning flash illuminates, showing off, backlighting the softly jagged outlines of the individuals within the herd, moving in unison, the front line of…
Standstill: Winter Solstice (Audio)
To honor the day when the sun stands still, and the change of seasons, I offer a fresh perspective. Enjoy!
Sit With It (Audio)
The poem, “Sit With It”, as read by the author.
Freezing Fog (Audio)
I wrote this poem after walking in the fog one freezing night. Both beautiful, and unsettling. Do not fear the fog…. let it open your eyes!
A New Script For Earth
A New Script For Earth If I don’t play my role, there is no one else to do it. “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done”! Each of us has a role to play, and all are necessary for the great plan to play out. We can begin by seeing that we…
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2023
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2023 Can you take a day out of time? Can you turn your gaze, not just to the Sun, but expansively, to the rhythms that play out as the Sun and Earth dance together over the course of seasons, running and twisting, this way and that, spinning , and laughing. Having gone…
Freezing Fog
Freezing Fog Terry Tischmak 12/18/2023 All Rights Reserved The freezing fog envelops me, wrapping me in an embrace that is sticky, yet sharp as a knife, cutting through to my core, while it shrouds the world as I pass through it. Dense, impenetrable, I must open, and trust what I know, to make my way.…
Sit With It
Sit With It Terry Tischmak January 29, 2022 Sit with it. What you can’t face, what you can’t bear…….. what overpowers you, and makes you feel like a helpless child…….. Sit with it, and let it rise……….. until it fills you. Reaches your nose, and cuts off your breath……… choking, suffocating, suffusing everything. Sit with…
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2021
Can you take a day out of time? Can you turn your gaze, not just to the Sun, but expansively, to the rhythms that play out as the Sun and Earth dance together over the course of seasons, running and twisting, this way and that, spinning , and laughing. Having gone all the way to…
Watching The Fire: Flying Turtle Blog 11/12/2021
Watching The Fire: Flying Turtle Blog 11/12/2021 Last night someone I care deeply about had a dream that the world was on fire, and that “…we were waiting to burn up”. Then they woke up. It seems a rather frightening concept on its face: the world being on fire, and simply awaiting the moment when…
A Place To Bloom
I wish to share with you an audio recording of my poem, “A Place To Bloom”. I hope you find it peaceful and meditative. It may even help you sleep. Enjoy .
Trust, and Fire
Trust, and Fire My place of trust shut down in youth, attacked whenever I showed vulnerability. Layers of armor, defense, piled up until I could no longer see the beautiful soul, the connection to god. Left lonely, shut out, unable or unwilling to give because I was afraid to receive. Love hurt. It felt like…
A Place To Bloom
A Place To Bloom Relax……. And set free The bangles and the barbs, The scene, and the colors on the flags. Markers of who you are, and where you’ve been. They all pull you off… Tugged by the current Flowing past to somewhere else. Motion without end, That leads To where others are going. Release…………………
