Tag: Poetry

After the RedFlame Initiates Destruction in your life and you Return to the Scene to see if you can rebuild what you had, you may realize that it isn’t possible. On the spiritual path, we are given opportunities to grow in awareness, often through painful experiences. During those times, we have the choice to go…

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…

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…

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…