A Community of the Spirit: February 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

February Rains

Strange, unsettling dreams
and a deluge in the night.
Rolling thunder heralds cooler weather.
As daylight unfolds, dewdrops glisten
on plush leaves as north winds
assail the chimes.

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Melinda Rothouse (Ziji) is an educator, coach, musician, writer, performer, Aquarius, and grateful student of the dharma. An avid traveler, she inhabits that fleeting twilight space between sunset and moonrise. She holds Master's degrees in religious studies from Indiana University and performance studies from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts. Currently working on her doctorate in psychology with a specialization in creativity studies at Saybrook University, she is also the founder of Austin Writing Coach and Co-Founder of Syncreate. She has also worked as a freelance educational and travel writer for a number of years.

A Community of the Spirit

There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,
if you want to be held.

Sit down in the circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.
Don't accept consolations.

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover's mouth in yours.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me."
Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

From Rumi – Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

A Community of the Spirit

Saturday, February 4, 2012

February Rains

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