Poetry: Cartographer [06 Jan 2010|12:47am] healingdrysuits Cartographer Eager we are, to emboss our signature, on the map of the human heart, as if we know the way, as if we are the cartographer. All we really get to know is that enlightenment is somewhere, and that we search the maps for what that means to us. Stymied by the magnitude and sheer size, when unfurled feeling halted, pen quivering when we attempt to plot the course over astounding topographies, who’s peaks of despair and lowlands of happiness we cannot fathom. All we really get to record is where we have been. Our maps are nothing more than retrospectives and no two are the same when compared. Initiating tremendous debate in the halls of thought and deep frustration ensues, when we find that we borrowed or pilfered another’s map... all just maps to the past none yet complete making us yearn for exactness craving accuracy like a man dying from scurvy craves fresh, clean water. And yet...dear captain do not forestall your journey! Strike the mast with your hand and call up the sails. Wrap determined fingers around varnished copper astrolabe warm from your touch, familiar, sight the constellations by night and follow the winds by day Wipe clear the table! Throw down your parchment! Grab the fountain pen and chart! Gladly embrace where you have been and proudly demark its location. And above all else I offer these words to you fellow traveller... You will find what you seek. But the one that seeks will not be the one that finds. The human mind is not capable enough to plot the trajectory or guess the exact location of where the richness of experience with your human heart will lead you to. The treasure you clamor for cannot be experienced by the mind that clamors. Cry enough over that loss to sink your ship and finally, blessedly somewhere on the journey you may come to a great emptiness a place where longitude and latitude run parallel and never know one another and you may fall off the edge of the world never to be seen again and yet you will be seeing the world for the first time in a lasting way- for all time. If this happens... Walk away from the plotting table with the compass spinning with incomprehension pens rolling around like misplaced notions and just lay down on the chest of the great ship surrender to its sway feel the mighty ocean’s spray mingle with your salty tears and feel the mind fall away... welcome to where you are finally...welcome to where you are. Place your hands upon your heart and with clarified whispers, speak the words “I AM HERE”. 2 comments|post comment

[28 Dec 2009|03:07am] heyyoumissmuse it's 3am. i am still crying, and you're sleeping. fml. post comment

Ocean [27 Dec 2009|04:49pm] healingdrysuits Ocean God cupped her breath of hand and I, Ocean I, swelled with love when breath of hand descended from above and I, Ocean I, swept up to greet it reached up sweetly, longingly to meet it and felt the touch of the open palm and through this effort became Wave I was Wave and felt the call of Moon dreamed of white capped rollers and the shore coming soon fell in love with liquidity and this ancient rite of travel paused when I saw the surf’s edge and began to unravel collapsing into the trough of my own momentum. I became so many so effervescent many and we tingled with the touch of sand we danced together under the moon on land I lay upon the Earth and felt what was left leave me. Then God winked at the moon and she pulled a silken leash rolling back the ocean exposing the beach and I? I left with the tide. 2 comments|post comment

Kite [27 Dec 2009|04:47pm] healingdrysuits Kite Earth’s breath blows and I soar wind’s strength grows and I roar with the fate of the skyborne earthbound. Up here, among clouds found I see now looking round the perfect jigsaw fit that puzzles from the ground and I drift with the sound of sing as God lets out more and more string oh what wonder is this how deeply flows this gusty bliss? At times too much seems to be the rule and I wonder....how much string is on that spool? And I pray for the return of good and bad right and wrong and the gritty feel of dirt under my fingernails a train back on the rails a heavy train, knowing where it’s going. God answers the prayer with more string... post comment

We've got a rainy Christmas... [25 Dec 2009|01:18pm] strictlyttaboo [ mood | calm ] [ music | Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Edith Piaf ] HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! Raked in some good loot, I'll have to take pictures when I get home tomorrow. Definitely pleased ^^ Went to the annual Christmas Eve party at my cousin's last night. Not so horrible. Instead of suffering through my bigoted uncle this year I got to talk to my cousins and hold babies. Quite the improvement. Seriously, I watched this guy try to shove his whole fist in his mouth for about half an hour. Adorable. Have spent most of my time on the computer lately trying to fill up my itunes, as it is a NEW LAPTOP (!) and has nothing on it. Anything you guys would like to share would be greatly appreciated! I hope everyone's holidays are absolutely wonderful =] 4 comments|post comment

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