“…Maybe you and Mr. Blue are but two of my many messenger guides, and I am never without wings.”
Lines from my poem “Blue.”
3/16/22: Barred Owl
Tag: den of positivity poems
3/3/22: Last Night As I Was Sleeping
Found this lovely poem today. When old shame and regret about my 2017 soccer accident turn my head for a moment, I will have Señor Machado’s words to bring me back to myself.
2/7/22: Barter
1/30/22: The Peace of Wild Things
Mr. Berry, I’ve been doing this too, 3-4 times a day since April of 2020 when Tuck & Toby called me to come. I love you for this gift, and my ears for the call, and the eyes of my eyes for opening.
1/17/22: Just Like the Moon
1/15/22: She Opened Her Arms Wide
She opened her arms wide, took in the starry sky, and stayed the decade.
8/28/21: The Most General Outcome
The most general outcome you desire is to feel good most of the time. If you don’t know what your specific desired outcomes are, then the specific outcome you desire is stillness.
7/10/21: Sometimes, David Whyte
SOMETIMES, by David Whyte
Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests, conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away.
from Everything is Waiting for You
6/1/21: Percy and Books
5/28/21: They/Them
Yes, it takes getting used to using “they” and “them” to refer to Demi Levato or another person who identifies as non-binary. Yes, the English Lit. scholar in me wrestles with it. But it’s not a hard thing to do. A hard thing to do is grow up in a world that doesn’t reflect your personal truth through its media and language. A hard thing to do is live in a world that tells you in both subtle and blatant, sometimes life-ending ways that you are less than human because of the skin you’re in. Quit rolling your eyes and try it. When you forget to, say oops and sorry. It’s okay to feel uncomfortable. What if the bothersome work it takes makes the world a better place for you, too? And take a closer look at those feelings their request is bringing up in you, because your reaction is not about THEM, it’s about YOU.
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