Excerpted from Into the Hearth by alternative healer Wendy E. Slater, who was inspired to produce a plethora of poems after experiencing a chronic illness and embarking on a series of spiritually enriching getaways, the first of which was a life-changing trip to Scotland in 2001.
I May Need to Change Seats
I may need to change seats,
Those that surround,
At a distance, are not random,
Too close in utter idleness,
Not like a car warming up,
But dizzy despair
Of not having touched
Their souls or
Any souls in their
Driven moment
Of names, devices, histories
Laced together of routine,
Following the same
Highway day in and day out,
Polite, mundane, politics of
Superficial fabric
That tears the skin
With its voice.
What Would It Be Like?
What would it be like,
Truly, in truth,
If we folded like smoke
Spiraling up into nothingness,
Disappearing from sight,
But touching, seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing
Everything at once
Not as a mixed sumptuous bowl of soup
With elegance and flavour
Enough for any palate,
But as a symphony blended
In rapture, an orchestrated
Ensemble of love, divinity and ecstasy
Such that trumpet and violin
Blare with truth
And vehemently resonate
Life
And one may listen to the
Delicate strings in concentration,
But it would not be a celebration
With the whole troop of players,
Listen, listen, listen
And you will hear
And then sight, sound, and touch and
Smell will awake
Like nothing
Nothing at all
Else it be hidden
From view.
This is yours, open to it,
Dance, celebrate and love,
Be the audience, the field,
The sitar and the banjo,
The conductor,
Even the janitor and the
Neighbour with the window
Wide open who cannot
Come out to see, but
Only hear,
By dark and in the light,
Awaken,
To the fire in the hearth,
Make music and be.
I Do Know the Despair
I do know the despair
Of feeling the link
To the Absolute
Has been absolutely forgotten
And brought me to my knees
And so weary
I have remembered and do remember
The link is not a chain
Not a thing,
There can be no attachment.
It’s all within.
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Wendy E. Slater’s Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14 is a simmering, soul-searing and spiritual book of poetry that deftly points humankind towards a new awareness of our Oneness with all humanity, nature, the cosmos and the divinity. Into the Hearth is one of 20 volumes of “Vision Quest Poetry” to be written since Slater’s heart-opening trip to Scotland in 2001. For more information, visit Traduka.com.
Excerpted from Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14 by Wendy E. Slater, ©Wendy E. Slater, Traduka Publishing. |
