Hart of a Poet

Healing Walks

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Inspiration: This is one of the poems chosen for publication in the anthology The Journey of Healing (Safer Society Press 2010). I am honored to have four of my works selected. Please enjoy listening to Healing Walks.

Living Shadow

hart — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:57:34 +0000

Inspiration: Poets often see~and see through~a situation. We look at the levels behind, the levels below, seeking the essence of the event. Sometimes we can do the same with people. I frequently meet very talented people who are living only a shadow of their potential. One person seemed to carry that energy so deeply, I could see it everywhere. So I wrote: Living Shadow.

Living Shadow

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Living Shadow

Publication Announcement

hart — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:18:37 +0000

Inspiration: I would like to announce the publication of an anthology titled, The Journey of Healing (Safer Society Press 2010). I am honored to have four of my works chosen for the anthology.

I am also a proud supporter of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). I participated in the DC Rape Crisis Center SAAM 2010 Poetry Slam last night, Monday April 19, 2010, at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street in Washington DC. It was an inspiring event to raise awareness and help educate the community on the issue of sexual violence against girls, boys, women and men. Ten courageous poets, a supportive community and excellent planning and execution made this an exciting and informational evening. I was fortunate enough to be selected by the judges as the winner for the slam. I donated the prize to DCRCC in the name of all the poets who were courageous enough to come out and read their works.

Please support this important social issue in any way that is appropriate for your life.

PS: New posts coming soon!.

Hartofapoet

Calling Back My Spirit

hart — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:32:47 +0000

Inspiration: I’ve met some interesting people who have chosen to work through the challenges in their lives by consciously reviewing, evaluating, and making decisions based on where they want their lives to go. Along the way I heard someone say, “You need to call back your spirit.”

That phrase stuck with me and bounced around inside my soul for a long time. I wondered what it would sound like to call back your spirit. So, based on what I had heard many friends say, I tried to create a collective voice poem that expressed what I had heard. So I wrote: Calling Back My Spirit

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Dreams

hart — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:48:25 +0000

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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Dreams

Choices

hart — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:34:00 +0000

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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Choices

Long Ago

hart — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:22:26 +0000

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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Hearthunger

hart — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:16:56 +0000

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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HeartHunger

Sight

hart — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:14:23 +0000

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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Darkness

hart — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:52:27 +0000

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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Exile

hart — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:41:50 +0000

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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Stream of Stories

hart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:14:55 +0000

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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Events Live

hart — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:55:02 +0000

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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6 Shorts

hart — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:55:34 +0000

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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Black History: Red~White~Blue

hart — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:52:04 +0000

Inspiration: Identity is frequently fluid, forming and reforming the more we come to know about ourselves. When PBS aired a number of programs about the Human Genome Project in 2005, I was intrigued.

I could now discover some DNA answers to identity questions of where we, our family, and therefor I, really came from. I learned that my DNA is 60~20~20.

60% African

20% Native American

20% European

100% Spirit ~~ 100% Human ~~ 100% Living ~ Loving ~ Learning ~ Exploring ~ Life!

Those answers confirmed early family stories of growing up in the border state of Kentucky. They also caused me to ask even more DNA questions …

The DNA Questions

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The challenge with questions is,once we start asking them there always seems to be one more.

As my internal tribe ~began to dialogue, inside~a spiritual question came alive~

1 Question 2

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