Inspiration: I was talking to friends recently about their hopes and dreams. It sparked a memory that I had written a couple of poems about the challenge of living our dreams.

I searched and found these:

In Your Dreams

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Dreams

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Inspiration: I was reflecting on choices, those that are conscious and those that are hidden until we act on them. It reminded me of something that was said in one of the Matrix movies. Choices stalk us nearly every moment of ever day. It would often help us to know which ones we are making.

So I wrote Choices

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Inspiration: Current trends and old patterns mix when times get hard. I am a witness to how the patterns of long ago stifle, challenge, advance, destroy, sidetrack, and otherwise affect the choices people around me make. Having searched my past for patterns and talked with others who have too, I wanted to simply capture the dynamic that we often live.

So I wrote: Long Ago

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Inspiration: When we have to deal with the loss of a relationship we can develop a heart~hunger. We long for what we have lost. Someone I care about is living through a tough transition. In trying to understand it, give voice to the energy around it.

So I wrote: Hearthunger

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Inspiration: A friend of mine has been working on deep understanding of her motivations and desires so she can live the life she was born to live. She constantly searches for insight. Each time we talk she teaches me a new way of looking at things. She has developed her unique vision.

So I wrote: Sight

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Inspiration: Listening to how people deal with cultural dark times~~layoffs, foreclosure, financial loss, spiritual emptiness, social shame, identity quakes, death of a loved one~~caused a reflection on darkness. What urges do we face? How do we deal with them? How do we remember them? So, I wrote: Dark Urges

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I also reflected on what has happened in my life and in the lives of people I know when we have denied the darkness. So, I wrote: Darkness Denied

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Inspiration: Exile happens. Tough transitions and changes can make us feel like we have been exiled from the life we have come to know. The ultimate feeling of exile can come as we approach the final days of a change when denial has been defeated, when anger has burned hot, when avoidance is not an option, when bargaining time has passed and acceptance is the only path forward.

I wondered what that would be like when we face the final transition out of this world and into the next. So, with those thoughts in mind. I wrote~~EXILE.

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Inspiration: I went back to listen to Spiritual Partnership and found this poem in a file. It is a companion to that poem. It speaks to what we are really asking of someone when we ask them to enter into a spiritual partnership with us.

Our lives are a stream of stories that flow into each other. Spinning, whirling, crashing, lazily flowing or turbulently throwing us about. Yet, there is something about being together that makes it all worthwhile.

Stream of Stories

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Inspiration: In a recent telephone conversation I had dejavu. I felt I had had that conversation before, not once or twice, but many times.

It felt like a movie I’d watched too many times and a part of me was asking, ‘why are you watching this again.’ 

I realized it was a ‘memory loop’. Something my friend could not, or perhaps would not release to time. It reminded me of this poem that I wrote a few months ago.

Events live…

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Inspiration: At any moment, thoughts begin to circle in my mind. Sometimes there is a theme. If I capture them quickly they leave me alone. If I ignore them for too long they stalk me. The good thing is, on those days, the poems don’t have to be long. Below is an example of 6 very short poems that seem to form a theme — a moment in time.

A friend of mine joked recently, Can’t you have an insignificant moment? 

I thought about it for about a second and said, No. We can have light moments, happy moments, carefree moments, but as long as we have breath we can’t have an insignificant moment.

He laughed at me and said, You are such a Hart!

I said nothing, but thought, Yes, I have the Hart-of-a-Poet.

I hope you enjoy these 6 Shorts.

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