“OUR SWEET VICTORY”, “ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE NIGHT”, and “CELEBRATING THE COMING STORM” 3 poems about rising to the challenges of simple living in winter
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SPIRITUAL SOUL
THE DAWNING LIGHT,Volume 8, # 777 Saturday, February 17, 2024
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OUR SWEET VICTORY
When we come in from the cold,
To this hall kept warm
By our big wood stove with
A fire dancing in it’s belly,
After a day of difficult accomplishments,
We taste the sweetness of having
Pushed through every rising obstacle
Until our goal for the day was reached.
Victory is ours—
Not over another or circumstances,
But our own mind’s whining
Resistance which always wants
To quit, to delay, to not do
The tasks this day needs and demands
To keep our lives flowing ever
Upwards towards our highest good
And the highest good of all.
Sweet victory is ours,
As we now take rest,
With waves of blissful
Gratitude sweeping through
Our minds, hearts and souls
For a day of doing impossible things,
For caring enough with a will to now arrive
At the end of work well done.
January 29, 2021
ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE NIGHT
After so many days and nights
Of living breath by breath,
Always on the edge of
Utter exhaustion and sleeplessness…
Tonight I am fully resurrected
And energized with divine power
Arising from praying through to attain
The presence of my sweet Lord within.
I have risen from my warm bed,
Suited up in work clothes and boots
And come out into the frozen night
To take up the work calling me.
It is sheer joy to return to
Having a crystal clear and radiant mind
And this aging body running now
At full capacity and power
To do whatever needs to be done.
Tonight this work is worship,
This work is prayer,
This work is supreme meditation
And blissful soaring salvation.
December 16, 2021
CELEBRATING THE COMING STORM
A cool wind blows in.
Whispering of another coming storm,
That is wanted and welcomed by
All living beings from grass to coyotes
Who live in this wide valley
Surrounded by mountain peaks.
I choose to celebrate
Every coming change,
For I know all that comes,
Whether pleasurable or hard to bear
Is sent by the divine to teach
And train and lead me
Along the highest way
And the greatest good
As I rise and spread my
Wings to soar up, over and
Through this and
Every other coming storm.
February 18, 2021
Calligraphy and Poetry by Chinmayan
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
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