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English - Writing, Life, Lisa Goettel
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The Bird Sings · 5M ago

a hundred springs

Update: I learned today of a friend’s sudden passing.  I feel shock and sadness and a heavy heart – noticing how loss hits hard and fast, then freezes, then seeps in very slowly, subtly shifting the landscape.  We’re traveling a … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 5M ago

christmas poems

The past couple years I’ve offered poems for my family members as Christmas gifts. It’s a gift for me too, taking the meditation, holding them in my mind and heart and asking for the words. I feel closer to both … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 8M ago

silence collecting.

I’m glad blogs don’t need vacuuming. Instead of dust-bunny collecting it’s just been here silence-collecting, which actually feels like a cleaning. This spring and summer has been one big and unexpected (as these things are) journey of Lisa time – distilling Maslow’s pyramid down to the bottom, then
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

Moving and Shaking

I’ve spent the bulk of this week feeling abundantly irritable but quietly happy and oddly brave- a weird combo I’m learning to associate with change. Life is feeling alternately fragile and full, earthy and elusive. A week of mindbodyspirit-opening yoga in Mexico, new heart-flowerings, global moveme
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

the man and the crab

A man was walking across a desert- as he walked, he did not wonder how he found himself there or where he was going or how long it would take to arrive. He did not notice his thirst or peril, … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

testimony

A re-write of an old poem. I’ll probably re-write it forever. Sent with love- testimony you stand on my coast, lacing the air with your scent; until you are more scent than you your words a dummy trail – crumbs, … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

in the future

I remember what it feels like to be a man So I touch my face and lips now like one I speak many languages In my belly they remember poems I see pictures of yours that I recognize My dreams … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

You and I

It has been a ride so far for me this new year, full of magic and change, frought with detours and hiccups.  Thank you Santa, Universe, Full Moon for the countless opportunities to practice acceptance and compassion.  Even when they … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

the eyes before me

Thank you Linda for The Gift of Hafiz. I read him again today and found my own poem inside- the eyes before me look into the eyes of every lover and say do not worry that your cutting word, your … Continue reading →
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The Bird Sings · 1Y ago

mind and heart talking

I do not understand my trust and that is its nature mind and faith cannot know each other fully and that which cannot be known cannot be trusted fully or, is it so? The mind says: Faith is another word … Continue reading →
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