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Abundance

Posted on Dec 12th, 2006 by shirleytwofeathers : Artist shirleytwofeathers
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            Abundance
    
            Stop huddling around your TV

            Squinting, fiddling with the knobs


            It's midnight now

            Climb up on your roof and be the satellite dish

           

            Shape yourself into a bowl

            And I'll show you what it's like to be full

                                                                       -Grace Gibson

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My sister and I are working on a joint project. My mandala art and her poetry. I am posting them as they come to us, and using the "blog" format because I am interested in feedback, comments, and observations.

Eventually, my goal is to have enough for a book, and then figure out how to get it published. At any rate. I hope you all enjoy the image and the image.

Blessings.
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Flame

Posted on Dec 19th, 2006 by shirleytwofeathers : Artist shirleytwofeathers
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Flame...
 

A Bedouin sits by his fire

Who am I? he asks the embers

Touch me and find out, comes the answer


The man turns around and says to his camel

I have been out here too long -

I am having a conversation with a pile of burning dung...


The camel blinks stupidly; no one can tell what a camel is thinking

The Bedouin shrugs and turns back to his fire

Truly, If I touch you, I will know who I am?


No, cracks the fire.  But you will know two things...

Curious, the man asks - what two things?

You will know pain and you will know you are not pain


How stupid, grumbles the man

Indeed, says the fire 

            You have been confused for a long time.

~ by Grace Gibson


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I was going to write something about the poem, and the mandala.. some commentary or something.. but I really don't think there is anything extra to say. So I'll be quiet now, and just enjoy them. I hope you do too.
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Zephyr

Posted on Dec 31st, 2006 by shirleytwofeathers : Artist shirleytwofeathers
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"...though unmoving, cold and breathless, I heard the world breathe into her great lung - the breath of all pain taken in, held in love and released to wind as pure as peace..." 

~from The Ravening Wing by Grace Gibson



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There is a meditation that I read or heard about somewhere - (I think it might be Buddhist in origin) - where you breathe in pain and breathe out peace.  It's very powerful whenever I remember to do it. The trick is in the remembering.
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