Early in the morning.
I curl deeper into the warm nest of my bed.
I focus on being who I am right now.
A lot of energy rises and falls in my head,
folding in on itself
like a perfume twirling in water.
Yet denser and jagged -
energy trapped in a thundercloud.
After a while I notice two voices.
The voice of reason wants me to achieve.
It talks of creating
of changing policies, building a home,
and moving into the world.
The other voice has no voice.
It resist the structure needed for language
and needs to know deeply.
It dreams in cycles.
Into its depths inspiration drops
causing slowly contracting ripples.
One draws forward.
The other draws back.
Could I get these two to trust each other?
To embrace and love and conceive?
To feel secure in the power of the other?
20 comments:
oh, I think you are most definitely capable!
PS When I started reading, I thought you had gotten married:)
Wow! If you figure that one out, let me know! I find those two things to be incompatible but I might be a bit short-sighted on the topic.
Balance. Oh, yeah. :)
I think my voices are the opposite of yours. The voice of reason is full of excuses and complaints that put up walls and doors to stop the voice of soul from exploding out into the world.
wow. i love your words here hele.
always beckoning, always resisting; this is the pull of my life that i've come to accept as who i am.
although i still work on changing the perimeters, because i don't ever want the resisting to win.
I focus on being who I am right now.
I need to do more of that...
with your beauty.
I'm really glad you liked that poem.
I've been looking at your pictures, and find myself continually reminded of the fact that it is Fall down there right now. Or, wait, it would be in the middle of winter, right?
i think you already have and perhaps you don't yet know it...but the evidence is already there in the images.
you are already so very well on your way, sister love.
To feel secure int eh poser of another?
I don't know if I am ready for that. I resist it. Am intimidated by it.
Let me know when you figure out how! Why is balance so hard to achieve?
"Aye, that's the rub" - to get our brains and souls to co-exist peacefully. I think its like any other relationship - there has to be some compromise between the two.And you're right - focusing on the here and now is the best way to make room for both.
I love the way you write - it takes me into almost a dream state. I also love the way you describe what you see (I read back several posts)with the eye of an artist. I'm always amazed at how some folks totally miss the magical orange field with the purple shadows in their life.
A lovely picture-poem, Hele. I love the push-pull of it.
"One draws forward, the other draws back" . . . this is a shadow puppet dance, in pictures & words.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Debi
beautiful! And true to your blog title.
The flowers are very nice and so is the sunrise. I can't wait until this November and December, when I can see South Africa in the summertime (that idea still seems so weird to me)!
The little boy with the Spiderman mask seemed to put it all together nicely.
this is so beautiful.
I absolutely love photos 13 and 14- the sunlight, the trees. They're gorgeous. I feel like I know the place; sometimes if the light hits just right, something stirs inside. I can't explain that. Just that I particularly like those photos.
listen to your creative voice and let your beauty explode on to the world.
xoxo
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