Tag: mindfulness

  • The Shape of Sound

    The Shape of Sound

    The shape of sound – cicadas’ buzz rippling in the air The shape of shadow – falling angles of light from the house windows The shape of breath – cylindricalribcage expansive, circular, contracting ribbons of bone The shape of flower blossoms – doubled, orange begonias in an arc of crumpled fabric The shape of sky…

  • Gravity:  A Poem-Prompt

    Gravity: A Poem-Prompt

    Below is the poem-prompt from yesterday. It now has a name 🙂 I wanted to share it again because I practiced with it after I posted, and I discovered some things. It was late in the day, and the earth and sky were moving from evening into night. As I was guiding myself, I noticed…

  • An Little Introduction to Under the Magnolia Tree:  30 Poem-Prompts for Meditation & Writing

    An Little Introduction to Under the Magnolia Tree: 30 Poem-Prompts for Meditation & Writing

    I spent a month sitting under my magnolia tree. Not a month straight. A month of mornings. And it changed the way I live. On the inside. Several years ago I completed a meditation teacher training that prepared me to teach meditation to young people in schools. It was another jump into one of the…