“Home Is Where My Heart Opens” and “Waiting For Vision Quest”
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The Soul
THE DAWNING LIGHT # 122 Sunday May 21, 2023
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section # 108
Photo Credit: Chinmayan
HOME IS WHERE MY HEART OPENS In Growing Love For Where I am Meant To Be Every day I ask myself— Where is my home? Where is my family, Where do I belong And where should I live? I look at where I am And have been for years— This rugged california coast Where winter is one long Journey of rain and storm And life in the city Sometimes takes much More than it gives. I visualize the twenty acres Of virgin wilderness Far to the north That I bought before My children were born, Where I dreamed of Living, where the children Were conceived, but Which still remains untouched And achingly empty Of family, perhaps waiting For my first moves. I think of my beloved lady, Who is now so much a part Of me after waiting for our Joining for so many years, Who asks that I leave Everything behind and go Make a new life and Live with her in the Always sunny desert. I think of the Florida Islands and palmetto prairies Where I grew up And which call me still With a whispering “Home..home…home” That may only be the Restless wind. I think of dreams, Of visions, of my circle Of friends, of those I haven’t Met yet, of my children Who would miss me And who I would certainly Yearn for, if I moved Far away from them— But more than anything I know I want to surrender All my yearnings, dreams And visions to one place, Letting it be the home I have been searching for— Even if it does not fulfill All that I have wished for I know the true home will Arise in that place as I nourish it with my love, Share it with my loved ones And wait for the ultimate Freedom and fulfillment of Watching home grow through Opening my heart to Loving where I am And am meant to be. November 23, 1984
Photo Credit: Chinmayan
WAITING FOR VISION QUEST Of A Warrior Of Love and Light “Our vision reveals the meaning, Purpose, direction and power Source for our greater lives.” In living until now Without a vision, I have existed outside The circle of power That waits for me And knows my name. To find the vision, I must release myself From all that has already come, And all that I wish to come— I must patiently cut Through the veils of Painful scary confusion To clear seeing and Wait for clear viewing. Then, I must allow the vision To shape my life and All who touch my life, By adhering to the path That it will show I Must follow and have Already been traveling on. When the power flows, All darkness disappears And the forces of darkness Are dissolved and defeated When the gates of spirit Open and this mind bends Itself to the will Of the highest Way. Though all of life Lives inside some kind of Way of seeing itself, Few live with the Power of real vision— I make this time A preparation for My own vision quest, Knowing that when it comes, I must be ready to enter The space of higher seeing And honor it as a gift And myself as a warrior Of love and the inner light. November 27, 1984
Photo Credit: Chinmayan
Original Revelations Poem and Calligraphy by Chinmayan
Image Credit: Still Mountain Meditation Center
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