Meditation Poetry

Here are a collection of poems I wrote during the YYT2 yoga training with Paul and Suzee Grilley at the land of the Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California August 2015.

Vulnerability

Untie me

Give me courage

To become

Undone

I need not be

I need not be

The fire breathing dragon

Dancing an awe inspiring trance

I need not be

The tall thick cedar trees

Silently stretching from earth to heaven

Instead

May I grant myself permission

To wildly, humbly

Swing my limbs

Be it awkward or beautiful

Celebrating

The endless space around

From me, to the stars, beyond, and back again

From me, to the stars, beyond, and back again

Intoxicated and sobered by the divine

Courage of Meditation

Brave enough

To reach down deep

Passed the glossy sediment

Into the muck

The gooey dark flour

Of the pond, the ocean, the soul

Brave enough

To hold the unformed objects

Squirming, slithering, throbbing, or burning in your hands

Not dropping them

Not looking away hoping they will disappear

Holding them with love and courage

Brave enough

To dare to reach up to the stars

Asking them to fall for you

Counting their shooting tails

Laughing with the Gods

Your soul, yourself

Brave enough

To become the stars

And all the space around them

Immensity

Dissolving into the source

Brave enough

To sit between the two

Inhale

Pause soften

Exhale

Pause soften

Inhale

Exhale

Brave enough to hold faith

In your lap

Sit

After

Sit

Shedding the Winter Coat

May I be free of fear

Fear of ants crawling on me

Mosquitoes tasting me

Bees stingy me

Tigers eating me

May I be free of fear

Fear of not being worthy enough, not understanding

Fear of judgement, of failure, of exhaustion

May I be free of fear

Fear of hurting someone

Of misinterpretation

Of getting it wrong

Of being wrong

May I be free of fear

Fear of not getting enough

Not having enough

Not giving enough

Not being enough

May I be free of fear

Fear of loneliness

Fear of being forgotten, unloved, unlike, unlikable

May I be free of fear

Fear of fire

Of being burned by what I don't yet understand

May I be free of fear

Fear of God

Of God not existing

Of misunderstanding God

Of God's power

May I be free of fear

Fear of suffering

Of sickness, of pain

Fear of other people's sickness, pain, suffering

Of it being too much to heal

Of being helpless to help

Of defeat

May I be free of fear

Fear of not being a self

Of being part of darkness

Of my darkness, my envy, my pettiness

Of my judgements

May I be free of fear

Free from expectation of how life should be, can be, wish it to be

Free from any sense of separateness with the fullness of this moment now

Peace,

erinbell