Journal of Sacred Work

Days 291-292 Like A Welcome Season

Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems."

~
Naomi Shihab Nye


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Leave the
familiar for a while

Let your
senses stretch out

Like a
welcome season

Onto meadows, shores and hills

Change rooms
in your mind for a day

All the
hemispheres in existence

Lay beside
the equator of your heart

Greet
yourself in your thousand other forms

As you mount
the hidden tide

And travel

Back home

Into the
great circle of the heart

-Hafiz

Contributed by Liz Sorensen Wessel

Photo:  Vermont Autumn, 2013 by~liz

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6 responses to “Days 291-292 Like A Welcome Season”

  1. Woody Wessel Avatar
    Woody Wessel

    Great picture Liz, and a nice a fitting poem too.

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  2. Maria Doglio Avatar
    Maria Doglio

    Oh how I miss Vermont in the Autumn – holy nostalgia! Thank you Liz for bringing a bit of it home to me in California; 52 years in New England before the transformation into a Californian finds the vibrant seasons with all it’s sharpness and smells implanted in my soul. Love the poem— Life is a spiral of circles on which we can travel back in time and forward into our dreams! XXOO

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  3. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Liz. Thank you for decorating our lives by capturing Vermont’s autumn in one photograph and for lifting our spirits with your quotes from Nye and Hafiz.

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  4. sbeng Avatar
    sbeng

    Liz: capturing, colorful and vibrant-energizes the soul and spirit! This is one of the beautiful expressions of nature as it courses through the four seasons. As Nature does so do we. Thank you Liz for the reminder.

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    Maureen McDermott rsj

    Oh the Beauty of Fall and how well you have captured the wonder of changing seasons, Liz. Thank you. Hafiz too has a message for our spirits. May we welcome the new room in which we find ourselves today.

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  6. Doreen Chesebro Avatar
    Doreen Chesebro

    The wonder of fall coarses through my veins and your picture and words eco in my heart.
    Thank you Liz!

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