What does she seek
If not joy
What does she speak
If not peace
Where in her heart
Does she know
How to start
To generate
Her joy and her peace
©Ashley Barnes
Tag: seek
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{POEM} One Heart for All Time
We strive
And we seek
And we live the dream,
Yet we still fall short,
Feel unworthy,
Long for more
Will our striving ever end,
Will our journey ever see
Its destination?Or are we looking at it all wrong,
Are we seeking empty-hearted
Longing for a journey
That doesn’t truly exist,
A dream so far off
We can’t wrap our narrow hearts
Around it?Dreams we need,
They keep us going,
The journey of life is real,
It’s where our feet land
Yet we do ourselves no favors
By putting our only focus there
On the abstract
The unseen
Without noticing the details
Of this day we’re actually in
The joy and fear in taking that first step
And the secondThe value in not forgetting
To keep counting,
Keep noticing,
Keep loving, living,
Taking daily action
Which paves the way
And creates the dream,
One step at a time,
One joy at a time,
One heart for all time©SpiritLed 2018
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Daily Bliss – December 21
The Angels remind us not to seek a different life, but rather to seek a life that is meaningful. Different will follow.
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Waiting
When you feel the world closing in
When it seems all is dark
And all is lost
And four walls ominously bear down
On a soul longing only for freedomWhen you feel so tired
So exhausted, and you wish the world
Would turn without you
And sleep would heal all the tears
You didn’t have the strength to cryWhen the pain is too much
The days are too long
The minutes turn to hours turn to days turn to years
Before your eyes
And all joy seems to fade awayWhen the dark night swirls around you
Know that We are here
From that place inside where you dare not go
The open space beyond all shadows
Your inner sanctuary
Where love and peace rule the day
And pain is no moreSeek us there, if you will
When this world gets to be too much
When it seems you can’t go on
We’re waiting©SpiritLed 2016
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Empty Spaces
In the deepest, darkest recesses
there resides a space
for only youa space where you may enter and dwell,
to rest and receive the blessings
that are your giftwhere you may receive the guidance
that is our promise to you,
a promise made before time began,made in holy space
signed in spirit
sealed in angel’s wingsa promise for your everlasting care,
that you may not go this path alone,
that when you seek homeand the company of those whom you left
so many lives ago, you may connect
through the silent space withinthat open, lonely space waits to be filled
that love, that place
only found withinif you seek, if you open,
if you allow the light
into the empty spaces©SpiritLed
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Nothing
Nothing comes
and when nothing comes
what is left?There is the stillness that
fills the spaces in between thought
and action,
the spaces that spur
movement
or paralyze in fearWhen nothing comes
you have no choice
but to go thereTo seek rather
than be sought
to find the knowing
that is buried
in plain sightTo wear the crown of jewels
that is meant for only you,
to sit on the backwoods throne
of woven twigs
haloed with a canopy
of fallish falling leaves
crunching under bare feet
calling you home to the place
where trickling, holy water
lights the path,
to the place you seek
in your waking dreams,
to the golden light
of creation energy
and the stillness of the places
in between……to create something
from nothing©SpiritLed
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Seeker
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
~Hermann Hesse, Demian
Cat Lady Poet 