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The Poet’s Corner

Poetry often takes one from unspeakably reserved to unbelievably confident and unrestrained. Feelings are liberated which permit one to explode on manuscripts and provides an outlet for ideas and dreams––which might otherwise never have been released.

Poetry encompasses creative muse which allows expanding of one’s veiled mind’s eye. Structures exist to allow one to identify hopes, fears, and dreams. Phrases unfold that gives one powerful expressions of imagination.

Poetry reveals a personal power to grow and confront issues of concern. An inner source of courage is found to explore through greater observant senses. 

©2004 Albert Lee Moran

 

 

From your perch you marvel at me

featherless, unlike you my parakeet

with your punk rock doo

 

You are a cachet of bells

full of morning glory

always happy, even caged

content with toys, food and treats

 

If I were a bird, I would fly away

you do not know of the outside world

your wings will never be

strong enough to fly south

 

So to the window sill and back you fly

singing bird songs & laughing at me

your friend, featherless and wingless

©2004 Regina Higgins

 

GRANDMOTHER

African violet blue

Found revelation of you

Flower pressed

Between pages of Genesis

 

A breath of fresh air

When memories fall backward

You forever envelope me

In the Spring of love

©2004 Regina Higgins

 

 

TENDER HANDS

I know a true cure for sadness––

Reach out hands

to touch someone’s pain

Which will create a warming smile

Deep within aching core of heart.

 

I know evil is not simple––

Nor are people ever simple

Life’s complexities cast dark veils

Which can be drawn by tender hands.

©2004 Albert Lee Moran

 

SKY VENETIAN BLIND

In a summer sky

over ripening grain fields,

flirting band of birds.

 

Fast swirling live mass

makes sky change light shades,

in - out across flight.

 

Synchronized motion,

united whole of many

in instinctual being.

©2004 Gilberto Hurtado

 

• Our Poetic Voices conducts a Poetry writing group to assist all ages and  levels of

  Poets, or Want-to-be Poets, to grow.  2nd Tues/4th Wed Glendora Library - 6:30-8:30 pm

•Our Poetic Voices readings meet 2nd & 4th Sundays at the Home Brew Coffee, 661 W. 

  Arrow Hwy, San Dimas, CA Readings and live music, 2-5 pm. Poets can read their works

or the works of a favorite Poet. Two featured Poets & open mic signups. No fees.

Quotes:

 

“Did you know that both

the Koran, sacred book of Islam, and the Jewish Talmud teach

that we will be called to account

for every permissible pleasure

life offered us, but which we refused

to enjoy while on earth?”

––Sara Ban Breathnach

 

 

“And this is to imply that one

who has made the sacrifice of self

to come into human form

is one who has chosen

to bring into being

a difficult set of circumstances

that can allow

true mastery to occur. “

––Ra

excerpted from The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce by Wynn Free

 

 

 

“B”uddha Poem for children

 

Your mind is Buddha

My mind is also Buddha.

Buddha looks at buddha;

Mind disappears.

Pine tree shadow reflected on

the pond is never wet.

Pebble thrown into the water,

Pine tree is dancing.

 

––Zen Master Seung Sahn

from Zen ABC by Amy Zerner

 

 

 

We have to accept personal

responsibility for uplifting our lives.

––Chögyam Trungpa

 

 

 

To awaken

a spiritual authority,

an inner sense of knowing,

always involves a shift of identity,

a rebirth,

a recovery of spirit.

In the Buddhist tradition

 we speak of this

as finding our True Nature.

––Jack Kornfield

 

 

 

Look into the mirror of your life...

See there, the reflection

of your thoughts,

your words and your actions.

Are you empowered or

do you cringe by what you see?

Know that, as you are still in body,

what you see can be enhanced

or even changed, if need be. 

You carry the keys of transformation

within your being...

your very response to this writing

shows you the path home.

Persistence and tenacity

 would serve you well

in this endeavor.

The choice lies before you.

––Elizabeth Joan

 

 

We always have a choice:

we can limit our perception

so that we close off vastness,

 or we can allow vastness to touch us.

––Chögyam Trungpa

 

 

The more you love and appreciate yourself

 for the magnificent unique expression

 of God’s creative nature that you really are,

 the faster negative and judgmental people

will leave your life.

––Harvey Cohen, PhD  www.aaaha.com

 

 

That the soft

overcomes the hard,

and the yielding

overcomes the resistant,

is a fact known by all,

but practiced by few.

––Lao Tzu

 

 

In shamanic societies it is the Warrior’s task to become visible,

and through example and intention to empower and inspire others.

––Angeles Arrien

 

 

“…a mother must not feel

obligated to give up herself.

Not unless she wants to raise

 a motherless child.”

––Lisa Cronin Wohl

 

 

 

Enlightenment, knowledge

and adherence to the Unchangeable Laws of the Universe disperse fear.

They make a man brave enough

to stand, if necessary, completely alone in the midst of his fellowman

and still be unafraid to declare

himself or to live his beliefs.

––Dr. George King

 

Where all the ladders stop...”

–Yeats