Tag: difficult times
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RedFlame DeepWater (pt.2): Return to the Scene
The deepening of spiritual awareness can go through many stages, some repeating and bringing up old patterns to make conscious, some with new, unexplained events to experience. I am currently working on a long narrative poem called RedFlame DeepWater. I previously posted Part 1, RedFlame Initiates Destruction, about the sudden events that can enter our…
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RedFlame DeepWater (Pt.1):RedFlame Initiates Destruction
See, Introducing RedFlame DeepWater for an introduction to this series of poems. RedFlame DeepWater RedFlame Initiates Destruction Out of the abyss, erupted RedFlame, Intruding in my life, and holding others to blame. I was content in routine, and collecting possessions, Ignoring nudges to change, and nursing obsessions. This beautiful place I have created, And built…
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Introducing RedFlame DeepWater
My next collection of poems, titled RedFlame DeepWater, is a pivitol series for me. The collection is about the, sometimes intense, events on the path to spiritual enlightenment. It includes a symbolic description of the experience referred to as “the dark night of the soul.” The dark night of the soul is a time when everything…
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Suspended in Thin Air
There are times we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, death of a loved one, financial problems, uncertainty, illness, injury, or spiritual crisis. I wrote this poem with these experiences in mind. These are times we get wrung-out and squeezed down to the essence of life. At this moment in our history, individuals in our society…