Thursday, September 17, 2015

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





1 comment:

  1. Such beautiful and inspiring words. Lovely!!

    A thousand thanks. <3 m

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