29 Dec 2023
by jeannepoland
in Poetry
Tags: 12/29/23, be de-internetted, Caroline Myss, contemplative, in love with silence, mystical, prayerful, spiritual path, stop looking at the distractions of business, the mystical realm, What is of value to me?, wild, wondrous
A spiritual life is not – repeat not – a mental, intellectual experience. It is a prayerful, contemplative, mystical, reflective journey that, in fact, draws you out of your mental world. Your mind is the last place you want to be as you contemplate the nature of what is real in your life and what is of value. What good is your mind when it comes to those questions? You’ve programmed your mind to tell you what you want it to tell you. Your mind is filled with the values you put inside of it. What can your mind possibly understand about the mystical realm? Nothing –
So be wild and wondrous on your spiritual path. Fall in love with silence and stop fearing it. Stop looking for the distractions of sound and business and phone calls and computers. Stop trying so desperately to stay “connected” – get “disconnected” and if you can endure the ego-shattering transition into being “de-Internetted,” return to silence and quiet.
Then ask yourself, “What is of value to me? Do I really pray? Am I comfortable in my spiritual skin? What do I know about God?”
Caroline Myss 12/29/23
18 Sep 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: grass, grazing, hooves, horse sense, mane beyond, pattern, stars, strokes, thunder, whipped, wild, wind
Drawn on iPad by Annika Poland (4 years old)
hooves to mane-beyond
thunder, stars, grass’s grazing
wind whipped strokes of wild!
13 Jul 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family, Uncategorized
Tags: back door, beak, claws, distance, escape, feathers, nature, not yet, owl, raptor, rapture, sharp, squat, talons, tiny, tongue twister, wild
pet to raptor
rapture met
in feathers
beak of raptor
no back door
escape
claws of raptor
not yet sharp-
cuddly
baby raptor
tiny squat
knows not what
a raptor does
yet.
12 Jun 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: feast, food, gourmet barbecue, meat spices, ring the bell, wild
Call of the Wild
Mangoes
Melons
Mushrooms
Meat
Spices
Slices
Ices
Wheat
Basted
Broiled
Sauteed
Or roast
Croissant
Bagel
Biscuit
Toast
Gourmet
Barbecue
Fast food
Take out
Organic
Preserved
Lean or
Stout.
Ring the bell
I’ll amble o’er
Chopsticks
At the ready.
Eyes dilated
Mouth a-watering
Forks ‘n Knives
Held steady.
6/12/2013
10 Apr 2013
by jeannepoland
in Uncategorized
Tags: acidly, boutique, chanting, dizzy, exploding, frizzled, gift, iphone, lightening, musings, mystique, photo booth, riddle, spells, tizzy, wild
Don Needs the HELP Menu!
The Gift
Who put your photo in Photo Booth?
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth?
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique.
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth;
Magic wand twirling: wild and uncouth:
Mid chanting, and spells and musings to sooth!
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Where Photo Booth surgically alters your face
“Til you’re not looking part of the male human race!
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique:
Waving and frizzled, acidly blown
Exploding like lightening on the i-Phone!
This poem is a trimeric.
04 Feb 2013
by jeannepoland
in Uncategorized
Tags: architecture, forest, hunt, north, wild
The Architecture in a family name:
My life guard’s name is “Forrest”;
His brother’s name: “Wilder”,
Other brother: “Hunter”,
Fourth is “North”.
Do you see a pattern?
Their mother is a song writer!
She struck a lyrical note with each sibling.
Sang her New England,
Borders of Canada, Wind Song!
12 Dec 2012
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: box, fox, lox, socks, wild
Inside the box
are lox
for breakfast.
And socks
for hiking
on rocks.
And blocks
of colored
wood.
There are fox:
non-tox-
ic wild ones
inside the box;
they’ll eat the lox,
the socks, the blocks:
and then the box.
All I’ll have left
is bites of box
and fox!
12/12/12
Jeanne Poland
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 