Butterflies and Open Space, Any Form

thank you, christy, for this beautiful post to the oslist.

Butterflies and Open Space, Any Form

our original thought wanders into chaos,
and dissolves
into a liquid body suspended weightless
at the wild and quivering edge,
ripening with the passion fruit of silence: yes *and* no

we re-mind
we re-member
the pattern of Our Body re-forms, and
the radiant chrysalis Opens
at just
the right

time

this is living in truth, and beauty,
in conflict, confusion, and love
these wings whisper into unexpected being
the fierce light-net that cradles the grief

this is the World to Come:
now
here
this

Love,
Christy
Seattle (finally cooler!)

Comments:

Hi Ashley, I'm so glad you enjoyed this--as you can tell, almost all of the words and images come right from here, from you and Chris and Chris and others of the easily amazed ones, and Practice of Peace and the voices of the OSList. On another note, we went to hear/see Ram Dass and Krishna Das the other night--sweetly extraordinary Ram Dass is as twinkly as ever. He gets around in a wheelchair now, and his pauses can be very very long as he listens for the words to come--but with no sense of strain, no whiff of wishing that life were otherwise. One of the things he mentioned was the equivalence of "soul" and "imagination"--that made me think of you, dear A. love, Christy Christy Lee-Engel | Homepage | 08.04.04 - 1:42 am | #

oh christy, you so frequently leave me blushing... thank you. i would love to hear more about what he said regarding the equivalence of those two words... or what his words meant for you (you know how much i love to fine tune my use of words and 'soul' and 'imagination' are two powerful ones to which i haven't given much Conscious Thought.) and as it is, i just heard krishna das for the first time this weekend... deeply moved. much love and gratitude to you and your radiance here at easily amazed and elsewhere in the world in which you roam and inspire! warmly, ashley ashley | Homepage | 08.04.04 - 3:54 pm | #