I met this remarkable woman at a John Fox poetry workshop I attended early this month. She's only been writing poetry for a year or so, yet look how it's set her afire (and the soprano and violinist who add their voices to the mix) as she reads from her various journals, her wonderful raw energy and love and light spilling out for others to drink in as they will. Inspiration from Abu Dhabi to San Francisco and back again! It's days like this, having received the link to this video this morning, that I love technology. Thank you, Bahareh!
Glad you found inspiration...
ReplyDeleteMary Oliver, another poet, once said; "Poetry is prayer, it is passion and story and music; it is beauty, comfort, it is agitation, it is thanksgiving... Often poetry is the gate to a new life. Or, sometimes, the restoration of an old world gone...poetry can quicken, enliven the interior world of the listener... Poetry is a life-cherishing force... For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."
Do you write poetry?
Let's keep those fires burning!
Thank you Mystic Meandering....
DeleteHow beautiful to read Mary Oliver in relation to poetry.
How true.... I love thinking of poetry as prayer.
For me it has been an outlet and a place to breathe.
Dear Chris thank you for being where you were when I was there.
Our paths were meant to cross on this beautiful journey called life.
Yes, Bahareh! I believe our paths' crossing was meant to BE, too. Thank you.
DeleteOh, yes. . . and yes: let's do "keep those fires burning," Christine. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this video Chris. Creativity seems to be blowing like a hurricane around the world. This morning it gives me hope for us all.
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing your comment, Maggie, over a month later. . . and yes----creativity is abounding, and it does blow through us all. Thank you.
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