Bodypsalm for Solitude
Burst 2 – Behind Closed Door Series Artwork by Dobee Snowber
Sip the sweetness
of your own solitude
a communion with yourself
in the season given to you
a mist sings over your limbs
softening your joints
releasing fluid between your bones
here is the oil to tenderize
demands and responsibilities
what some may perceieve
as loneliness is the invitation
for a rare union –
the fragrance of silence
bringing space in the spine
undergirding each turning
in the fall of your life
revealing heart’s yearning.
Be embraced
through a l o n e n e s s
the door to the inside
and secret passage
to the Beloved
and entrance to the home
of being loved
& being love.
Retreat
in the nest
of your inner habitat
and find your deep nature
greeting you.
Tags: aloneness, beloved, communion with self, contemplative, deep nature, fall, home, solitude, yearning
Dear Celeste,
Thank you for this amazing BodyPslam. As I shared with you, I’m in a period of “aloneness” myself for different and same reasons. So your beautiful words and phrases bring me comfort while I embrace the process that brought me to this place, praying and inviting a deep change. This gentle sadness “who” has taken up residence in my heart lives.
Carolyn
Thank you so much Carolyn…and your deep attention to how life unfolds for you gives
me courage…your words you live so beautiful..taking up residence in your life. joy, Celeste
Being love. Yes, Celeste. Thank you for inviting me to take time with your poetry in stillness…allowing myself to listen. Being courage, Celeste.
And the deep nature that greets you leads you down the path of creation, into the place of creating the awesome poetry of your life. We can now rejoice in the silence of winter.
I am so ever grateful for your beautiful words. Gracias.
and you my dear exude beautiful deep nature always…thankyou for your response..Joy to you!!!
you are welcome dear Lorna…you know this well..being courage. joy, Celeste
Truly sublime ~ I will meditate on your poetry as I look across English Bay and commune with what the universe has offered me this morning, right outside my door, with calling birds and wind off the waves
what a beautiful response Ray…you are living the bodypsalm in the texture of the sea