Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Poems Inspired by Poetry
Today, when I played my Tibetan chanting CD, nothing really happened. This time, I felt no inner energies flowing, nor did I experience mental images.
So I put on a different CD, a lovely disc put out by Deepak Chopra entitled "Gift of Love." On this recording, various readers offer poems based on the verse of Rumi, all dedicated to the Inner Beloved of mystical transcendence. And--I too became inspired to write a bit of poetry:
If Nothing Else
If nothing else
I have these words.
They come to me
like lovers
approaching.
My prison
is broken open.
Again, I am embraced,
dissolved into
these syllables of light.
Once More
Once more, I am at the doorway
kneeling,
a beggar pleading
to be seen.
Will you give me
some token?
A sign you know
I am here?
Perhaps a fallen petal,
a trailing scent of early blooms,
a soft wind
playing over my cheek?
I want to drown
in this well.
copyright, Dorothy Walters
