#mindfulness poetry

[imaginationstimulation]

Lost | by David Wagoner

from Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes behind you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to the Raven. No two branches are the same to the Wren. If what a tree or a branch does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.

[compassionmattersmost]

Poem: The Lightness of Letting Go

We chase the air and call it solid ground,A path to walk, yet never to be found.Enlightenment, it dances in the breeze,A dream we seek, but slips with gentle ease. Like floaters in the eye, it drifts away,Each time we think we’ve found it for a day.And angels laugh, for they can take to flight,By knowing not to hold their burden tight. The mind’s a joke, it tries to make its stand,While life…

[tamsoj]

Robert Bly, "Depression," from A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction

[mftulin]

One Precious Cookie - Poem by Mark Tulin

A poem about mindfulness and a tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh. One Precious Cookie was first published by Vita Brevis.    One Precious Cookie by Mark Tulin Brother Thay hands me an oatmeal cookie and tells me to eat it slowly, savor each bite because it is more than just a cookie; it is a beautiful experience I’m about to undertake. He stops me before taking a hasty bite; implores me to look at…

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[thehopefulquotes]

I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind.

Dr Reid’s/ Criminal Minds

[thoughts-left-unspoke]

[zuzu-draws]

Just a pair of friendly sorcerers out on a stroll~

[nerdyenby]

Sorry, your boyfriend got reincarnated. Yeah, he doesn’t remember that time you murdered him with your bare hands. He doesn’t know how much you love him. He doesn’t know that you’ve killed for him. He doesn’t know that you’ve killed him. He doesn’t know it’ll happen again. As he takes your hand and your heart, and you laugh from atop an animal the two of you ride together, he doesn’t know you’ve been here before. He doesn’t know it’ll happen again.

[throughtheeyesofmeblog]

[markscherz]

There is a happiness no-one else knows: the feeling of mud between fully webbed toes; the caress of a breeze on your moist shiny skin; the warmth of the sunlight that slowly soaks in; the gentlest hum of a thought far away, as you sit and you soak and let time tick away.

[y2kaee]

[night-thief]

"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Goodbye, August.

{Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd/ Deborah Landau, "September"/ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov/ Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites/ Sylvia Plath}