I read this earlier and at work it made me smile and I don't know why. But it was a busy Monday and we had numerous orders to take out. But at the end i was still smiling couldn't wait get back to my seat and read this again.
And I don't know why I'm smiling so much writing this 😂
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Definitely write your poems down.
Donna she has over 100 poems. I'm going to help her put them into book form. Or the sharks at work will lol.
Like your poem is the unfolding of a flower in That. It is beautiful.
You can see the change in Donnas poetry. The beauty of an awakened woman where she lives This and is That. Sees the essence in all things. No domain of experience is higher than another, to remain in one domain is to be lopsided.
Here's her poem part of three poems The Knights Quest
I meet so many people now who have had glimpses of stillness in their lives. I once read of Zen monks who sleep on their poetry and creative art never to be published.
But do write your poems down as you unfold under This or as This cultivates you. Depending on the tradition you subscribe to.
As Donna and I would enjoy visiting the Hindu temple in Oldbury Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple. The security guard would explain on how it was designed around a similar temple from India. It was a just a place we used along with our local park a great space to sit in silence. Why it's important to find a place near to you to just sit and do nothing and see what arises. No need to go to an Ashram or be around a great sage. These have their advantages to be next to silence in a sage and has its place as the silence tears through your past to bring you mind to the Now. But you can also find a place for yourself to find your own nature.
We would sit on a bench or lie on the grass grounds or enter each of the small temples. It allowed Donna to be more in this space.
Just as Eckhart was living in Glastonbury not too far from Ian but he found The Power of Now could only be written in in Canada. Not in England.
I know everyone has this creative experience within them away from the script of a separate me. I love cooking and growing flowers. In the story I would have laughed at the very idea. I find now just cooking I've become an expert, the mind makes a list but the silence cooks the food or I may be driving and the right flower 🌺 will be there. And I stop off and I may not know the name but I plant it. And so many people feel the stillness when they come over or I plant for them.
Donnas poem The Knight Quest. It comes in three parts Remember we are from England the land of quests, Knights, Queens and Kings 😂
The Knights Quest
Where is your castle knight
That you built for the maidens plight
Was it within your soul
To protect the hidden scroll
But has the time now come
To reveal by the light of the sun
The knowledge of sacred text
That to all had left them vexed
Maybe you question yourself
But to remember your hidden stealth
That for the purpose of heavens bride
Is the reason you Knight did ride
So now you have reached the time
When the monastery bells do
chime
To welcome you back to the fold
And reveal the secrets untold
Yet you question what rights have I
That live by the truth or die
To reveal the sacred song
That raised me again to be strong
And it is said that blessed though they be
That has bent and knelt by the knee
To walk with the inner light
For you are a warrior knight
God to the warrior does bestow
The use of the arrow and bow
That once to the mothers breast
Did the pain of the world digest
So stand straight and proud my knight
And know that the time is right
For the great mothers light does abide
Through the life that you cast aside
And unto you now is born
The Truth that others have worn
And into their stately vest
Do you my warrior rest
After that I took Donna to meet Ian and she loved it. Helping her come back down the mountain. Nothing more beautiful than a woman in Love.
Just as Eckhart awakened in his bedroom, you will find there's more of us out there.
Enjoy, write your poetry down. Find a place of silence stillness.
