Category Archives: Meditation

Solstice Meditation

Posted on June 21, 2018 by janemwoodman

i. Earth glows at Solstice – sings in orange blossoms murmurs sweet lavenders harmonizing with wrensong – caresses us all with love in breezes making feathered ferns dance shushing sweet jasmine into our rooms drawing us out gently into her … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on April 10, 2018 by janemwoodman

An open mirror to the sky her sudden scudding clouds— A lake rippled by gusts of breathless fascination— I am all surface: depths of old days foundations for wavelets expressing breezes exhaled by a loving Earth. Spring has wandered into … Continue reading →

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Elements

Posted on February 8, 2018 by janemwoodman

Beneath the chop of frantic chatter flow persistent currents shaped only by themselves smoothing rock soothing sand where creatures as alive as we with the same urgency to breathe according to their ways live fired by the same blaze of … Continue reading →

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For the Restless Gardener in Winter

Posted on February 5, 2018 by janemwoodman

Return to present breath, where light and life Relieve the anxious mind of what it bears So needlessly in constant, fruitless strife Thus losing native peace to pointless cares. There’s weedy ground to blister gardeners’ hands In June, but see … Continue reading →

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Meditation

Posted on February 5, 2018 by janemwoodman

A wall of silence divides the mind from what it needs where it must go To reach that wall first fight through miasmas of static invisible bondage Once static is visible its particles become free rivers of energy of even … Continue reading →

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