Today's piece is long....after a long journal about the pink full moon and an oracle card pull and fours hours of sleep in a row (!) and a watching the Artemis II blast off into space. This is all real. Miraculous Medal“Those are the graces for which people forget to ask”…said Mary (Mother of Jesus)… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 2
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POEM A DAY – March 4
*Gentle Warning:There is an expletive in this poem. Its contents describe a panic attack. panikattack in Ikea. my body undoing in the doing of buying, in the doing of being daughter-side, too many people, too many things, too much ‘this is how to live in spaces with things’, the lights daggering, my eyes double-visioning, lost… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 4
POEM A DAY – February 5
Our Task Today, At Least Once For M, with peaceful praise to Bhikkhu Paññakāra At least once, put your hand on your heart, and your other hand over that so both hands feel the pounding of life within you. At least once, stop time by joining it in the sacred thumps of the powerful, peaceful… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 5
#NPM Intimacy Poems – Disappearing, Worry, Yin Yoga, Kitchen Dancing
The Intimacy of Disappearing there is worth beyond the wordsthis is a hard truth for a writer& so, she learns to disappearwhen the learning is in the bellylandsacral sacred wound unfurlingchanting in a different languageshe used to understand, bodies ago The Intimacy of Worry Is in the fallacy of controlI think I have when I… Continue reading #NPM Intimacy Poems – Disappearing, Worry, Yin Yoga, Kitchen Dancing
VANESSA SHIELDS 