[Poetry Chaikhana] John O'Donohue - A Morning Offering

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A Morning Offering By John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008)   I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from the dark Bread for the hunger no one sees. All that is eternal in me Welcome the wonder of this day, The field of brightness it creates Offering time for each thing To arise and illuminate. I place on the altar of dawn: The quiet loyalty of breath, The tent of thought where I shelter, Wave of desire I am shore to And all beauty drawn to the eye. May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break the dead shell of yesterdays, To risk being disturbed and changed. May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more.   -- from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O'Donohue Amazon.com / Photo by kretyen /

============ Thought for the Day: There's that vast, silent Self within, almost unknown to us, a stranger, yet there nonetheless, seated in wordless immensity ============

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Hi Omss -

It's poems like this that remind us of the real power of poetry -- to heal, to inspire, to incite, to awaken. Though poetry itself may feel insubstantial, the result within us and the world we continuously create is very real. This is the ancient power of enchantment, formulating a mind-state and passing it along to others through word and rhythm.

Contemplate the implications of this for a moment. Everything within the human world, every building and machine, every nation and neighborhood, is born of the human mind-state. Poets and sages have the same calling, to skillfully feed sparks of new awareness into the collective mind and, thus, remake the world. That's real power.

All that is eternal in me
Welcome the wonder of this day...

Ivan

 

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