Archive for May 2019

This Poet’s Most Cherished Words

May 7, 2019

sacred words

From time to time I’ve contemplated what words are most essential to me. My list has grown slowly over time, through lived experience. The first word to become sacred to me was the word “we.” Culturally, we livin in a me-against-you time, and so the healing essence of the word we is even more needed. This year, the word “vessel” became part of my list, as the best word for the deep inner space where soul-life cooks. Here is a list of some of the words that capture the heart of living, forming connection, entering relationship with each other:

we

us

home

empathy

belonging

earth (earth)

poem

tree

roots

breath

ground

weaving

dancing

singing

attached

open

now

cosmos

peace

dream

wonder

wander

feel

vessel

yes