(audio poetry 3:43) let it go
by rachel
The full written text appears here.
Categories: audio, body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality • Tags: awakening, surrender, wisdom
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in case you’re in the dark, words divinely wrought is now in the spotlight
by rachel
I’ve heard through the grapevine that it can be overwhelming to navigate the Words Divinely Wrought archives if you’ve just stepped off the boat, so to speak. In an attempt to address that, I have created a more concise story about the origin and intent of our Global Poetry-Share project, along with a standing invitation for new participants to join in. The link is in the left-hand sidebar. If you are intrigued yet not quite up to digging out the […]
Categories: blogkeeping, inspiration, planetary shifts, poetry, Words Divinely Wrought, writing & creativity • Tags: faith, unity, wisdom
trust me, i know
by rachel
Back from New York City (and Santa Fe as well), I am awash with new creative ideas, new possibilities, and a relentless tug to reorder my priorities and refashion my very existence yet again. *sighs, rolls eyes* An invitation for you to participate more fully than ever before is simmering – but in the meantime, this piece muscled its way to the front of the line. i know that you are feeling unglued that nothing (nothing!) fits anymore and the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, wisdom
more than a year later, still dancing between storms
by rachel
In celebration of my bloggiversary this month, I’m revisiting some of my favorite posts. This one first appeared in February 2011 with a different image yet feels fresh as a crocus in the snow. Heads-up: This blog might go “private” in the next few days, as I continue to play with new design themes/templates. If I appear gone, know that I am just away… Surely you have noticed — in your own life as well as in the lives of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: wisdom
trust your heart, they will find you
by rachel
these letters dance in spiral rhyme connect the dots, they measure time and space revolves on axes turned, flares reignite in absinthe burned beyond mere words lies roisterous grace faint lines distill ‘cross heaven’s face avert your gaze, soft eyes reveal the truth of what you think you feel deep in the mist of vapored light hands pivot round turned left, then right existence sways, sparks rolling thunder caught off guard now torn asunder the net sewn fine to soften […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: consciousness, faith, wisdom
leaping into a voidier void and finding the heaven inside
by rachel
Clearly, this is no time for poetry. In fact, as I transition into 2012, I can practically see my poetry drifting out to sea, carried off by gentle waves. I’m not sure where it’s headed or when it might return to shore, and I’m okay with that. Much of it now feels prehistoric and somewhat irrelevant, in an age-appropriate sort of way. (As in, “The Ages,” not as in that chronological number braceleted to my wrist at birth.) I have […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: faith, higher consciousness, wisdom
the world needs you now (classic)
by rachel
I can scarce remember when I wrote this. It seems as though it has been circulating here and there forever, and there is always a new wave of people ready to hear and embrace it. This past year, the piece was translated into Russian (and perhaps other languages as well?). I envision a crowd-sourced video version in which many different voices and languages (including ASL, eurhythmy, and other nonverbal expressions) are stitched together, woven into a global tapestry of personal […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, life, wisdom
the most important things i am learning right now (classic)
by rachel
I first wrote and posted this poem in June 2010 and have edited it a bit here. (Some learning lasts a lifetime.) i’m learning that i’m not learning anything new – only choosing to remember a vast universe that I heretofore chose to forget (whether it was some intergalactic, ancient conspiracy or the fact that my slightly agoraphobic father kept us home if there was any possible chance of a thunderstorm within a 200-mile radius, doesn’t really matter) i’m learning […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, life, sacred, wisdom
prayer for this time: i am the miracle (classic)
by rachel
I wrote this poem in 2002, and first posted it on this site in 2008. Seems as true as it ever was. May all of us be the truth of who we are. No more, no less. Once again, the Hubble Telescope provides a tailor-made image: “Brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes…” Sound like anyone you know? In this time of miracles I recommit to faith To the power of All There Is To seeing beyond the physical […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, prayer, wisdom
‘a fire for you’ to light the winter solstice period (video 7:07)
by rachel
I know we’re not quite there yet. But in my part of the world, the snow is falling, the temperature plummeting, and, for me, the pull to go within no longer cuts me any slack. I just discovered this soul-stirring video from merhlin, which features music from composer John Boswell (who it appears is the “Hearts of Space” John Boswell and not the Symphony of Science John Boswell), along with poetry from the Wingmakers site (Poetry Chamber 24). I have […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, consciousness, higher consciousness, wisdom
thanks for giving: in praise of significant gestures
by rachel
thanks for listening for in your silence the value of my words is affirmed the uprisings of my heart given flight thus i know that i am here and it is good thanks for whispering for cutting through the noise with soft-wrought utterance, damping down the clatter gently sanding the edges of the sharp and loud for it is good thanks for waiting for in your patience all are given room to grow and when you are impatient, thanks for […]
Categories: inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: gratitude, prayer, thanksgiving, wisdom
i suppose we are here for each other
by rachel
I suppose I am here for you, to hold your hand in mine and in the other, an outstretched lantern penetrates a narrow causeway And so gingerly together we take each step toes probing the darkness anticipating a slipslide of all we have believed is solid all that we believe will lift us out of the muck and into the miraculous all that we believe. I suppose you are here for me, to fill the bellows of my heart to […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, love, surrender, wisdom
this is no time for timid hearts (redux)
by rachel
New season, new moon, (Jewish) new year, whew! I’m observing some people get smeared all over the carpet – and others gently moving toward greater clarity and understanding of their next steps, new steps, you-can-do-it-too-steps. Even though this poem first appeared in August 2010, it’s bright and shiny and new for today. And you? This is no time for timid hearts For holding back your most precious gifts in the face of fear of retribution For wedging yourself into a […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom
your body is not a storehouse for pain and suffering
by rachel
if you are seeking to be told which way to go, you are not truly seeking if your hanging on the hook is punctuated by a grasping need for ironclad elucidation, you have not yet surrendered your ego in service of the greater cause when you insist that your path resemble that of another, that your very evolution keep pace with your plans and appointments, that each and every pebble rapidly align itself in geometric symmetry, you will find yourself […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, surrender, wisdom
the promises i make myself
by rachel
I promise to walk the path that I always knew, deep inside, was mine – even when I was blinded by interference, fogged by hypnotic illusion, and momentarily forgot my way. I will remember that the map is etched upon my heart and readily accessible if I choose it so. I promise to trust the inklings of my heart and the urgings of my spirit without hesitation. I will invite my mind to the party as well, recognizing that wholeness […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, empowerment, higher consciousness, life, wisdom
thank you, peoplepassion, for making a video of my poem, ‘what if an angel took hold of your hand?’
by rachel
Finally, some sensitive and talented folks created a youtube video featuring one of my poems, and I am thrilled! If you did not see “what if an angel took hold of your hand?” when I posted it on January 27, 2011, you can find it here. The full text is also included at the youtube site. The peoplepassion channel is definitely worth a visit, as well; they have produced a powerful series of videos to heighten awareness of the drought […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: angels, earthangels, empowerment, wisdom
it is always within your province to create perfection as you know it
by rachel
it is far too easy to decry the actions of others the wringing of hands produces no music brings no pleasure to the soul, what blossoms can possibly be born of the grit-filled soil of derision? looking the other way may quell your anxious and marauding mind yet it is wise to choose carefully the mise en scene upon which your gaze may fall~ relegate your thoughts to the barren and your cornucopia withers under the weight of the chimerical […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: mysticism, opening heart, wisdom
prayer for radical forgiveness (a summer re-run for this time of endings and beginnings)
by rachel
If ever there was a time to clear your slate and actively begin to create a new and artful life, this is it. Forgiving yourself for all transgressions – real or imagined — is an essential first step. You are an evolving human living in an upheaved world; be merciful and cut yourself some slack, okay? Forgive me for not sharing fully in your pain for my own basket has been filled with seedpods of blossoming sadness and ripened fruit […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, forgiveness, opening heart, prayer, wisdom
triple play: poetry for the slightly dry and disheartened
by rachel
Many of us seem to be baking; considering whether we might fry an egg on the soles of our upturned feet. Here, a triad of poems, connected by their seeming ability to quench, to splash, to sprinkle a bit of moisture on whatever slightly disheartening notions might be visiting you in the heat of the day or the heat of the night. Pick one — or do as they do in America and gobble down everything in sight. now is […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, writing & creativity • Tags: awakening, consciousness, prayer, wisdom
it is time to lay the era of “channeling” to rest — and claim the wisdom that lies within you
by rachel
This post has been taking shape for six months — and now, its time has come. No more holding back for fear that these words will somehow disrespect or appear to discredit the fine, fine work of so many gifted individuals — or the concomitant fear that my more mainstream readers will instantly label, judge, and distance themselves from me. For many years, I have followed, admired, honored, and put great stock in the wisdom, comfort, and joy brought forth […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: channelling, empowerment, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom
the wave is cresting: remain fluid in all things and unduly attached to none
by rachel
Thanks to souldipper for pointing me back toward this poem, which I wrote and posted in October 2010, graced by John Singer Sargent’s loose-limbed “Spanish Dancer.” Seems I invariably end up back at Bouguereau when I go trolling for images: note the woman has now shed her clothes! I live in a drought-stricken, dusty place, and, as a double Piscean, I tend to bring my own water (and fluidity) with me wherever I go. Dare I say I relate to […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, higher consciousness, spirituality, wisdom
if you want to connect the dots, let go of your pencil
by rachel
I have, in recent days, been “this close” * thumb and forefinger a nano-hair apart * to shutting down my blog for good. “This is it,” I thought, and pondered a final posting featuring Kenny Loggins singing his song of the same name, amidst the soaring California redwoods (1993). I’m not yet putting out the “Closed” sign, but Kenny is here if the mere mention of his name awakens within you an indescribable Loggins Longing. (Yeah, you know who you […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, consciousness, wisdom
here we go again: eight tips for navigating today’s unsettled energies
by rachel
Just for fun, I perused what I was posting last May (2010), and stumbled upon this piece. Hmmm, seems to be quite apropos for “this current Now” as well. I added one word, along with this image from a recent hike with a friend. Also, OT: My book Words of Wisdom for Women is in stock and on sale at bn.com. Feeling a certain sense of urgency, a quickening coupled with a tremulous entry into a new dimensional framework? Or […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom
next wavers, this is your wakeup call: the world needs you now
by rachel
I wrote this piece back in the 20th century (!), and it cycles around from time to time. Thanks to some Facebookers, it’s now reaching out and resonating with a lot of folks around the world. I started out looking for bright, radiant images to post, but something about the expectant, deer-in-the-headlights look on this young monk’s face captivated me. Stepping into our own shoes can indeed be daunting, but when it’s time, it’s time. The world needs you now. […]
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baseball, bees, and the bloom of the now: what it is, what it’s not (redux)
by rachel
This poem has always tickled me, with its Springy integration of baseball imagery and the realm of higher consciousness. When rhyming verse appears on my doorstep, it nearly always is a harbinger of a reconstituting reality. These words first visited me (and this site) in late 2009. It’s not the bat – – it’s the one who wields it Not the ball but the one who fields it, Not the swing, it’s the yearning within It’s not the score – […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, consciousness, life, new paradigm, wisdom
can you remember what you chose to forget?
by rachel
For reasons that seem unimportant now, The memory of limitless existence slipped my mind Loosened from the landscape surrounding my being And lodged itself in a deep cave of forgetting Ah Yes, now I remember… The agreements drawn up and codified, Shuttled from lifetime to lifetime on trains endlessly circling the roundhouse Came up for review, And I marked one, then another, with the time/date stamp of The Now Declaring them null and void, and afire with the passion of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness, wisdom
this there has never been
by rachel
Freshly returned from a brief yet extraordinarily potent getaway pilgrimage, I am awash and alive with the reclamation of my soulspirit. This poetry first appeared here in June 2010: I rediscovered it as I am designing a new way to share my poetic wisdom “off the internet and off the interstate.” there has never been a time such as this – the sword of damocles hangs heavy, horsehair thread untwisting on itself sweat pours from the brows of the powerful […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, surrender, wisdom
letter to my ego (video by gatewaytobeing,1:29)
by rachel
I stumbled upon this video last night and just gobbled it up! Something about the music and the honest simplicity, and best of all, it made me laugh at myself — and that’s always a wonderful gift! If you click through to gatewaytobeing’s youtube channel, there are lots of other “one minute messages,” though I haven’t explored them yet.
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, wisdom
2011 prayer for wholeness
by rachel
My prayer for you Two Thousand Eleven Is that you mate your earth with heaven, That in the one you find the two And in the two, know all is you May deep within, you touch the glow And feel above as so below That you may walk on beauty’s way, Taste forever in every day In this one moment rests the All Above, below, the rise, the fall To know forgiveness, first forgive To die complete, you first […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: 2011 new year, awakening, consciousness, empowerment, prayer, wisdom
my holy trinity of personal transformative wisdom: what’s your flavor?
by rachel
Remember, this is “intelligent inspiration for evolving humans.” It’s rarely a piece of cake. If you’re feeling alone, confused, exhausted, hopeless, rudderless, or just generally frustrated and angry with what’s going on inside, outside, around, or beyond you, revisit one, two, or all of these archived posts. your personal evolution is not a solo act: Creation in all its infinite glory has not forsaken you here is what you must tend to today: Today is the best of all possible […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, wisdom
the times they are a-changing: be adaptable
by rachel
This is from a book (now in test-marketing phase) on easing your way through change. Nobody’s going anywhere these days if they dig in their heels and steel themselves against inevitable, inescapable, and (yes!) potentially wonderful change. There are times to be patient and times to act. There are times to rise up strong and independent and times to sink to the floor in surrender. Change may very well ask you to be wildly proactive one day and hands-off the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, transformation • Tags: change, empowerment, personal growth, wisdom
moving through change? be kaleidoscopic
by rachel
Here’s an excerpt from a book of mine that’s currently going through test marketing with a certain publisher who shall remain nameless. Can’t tell you the title (mainly since it’s not finalized), but it’s filled with “words of well-being to ease your way through change.” Be Kaleidoscopic If you’ve ever peered through a kaleidoscope, you know the beauty and delight produced through constantly changing patterns. The tiniest shifts this way or that bring forth an unending parade of color and […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, spirituality, transformation, word of the day • Tags: change, life, wisdom
your personal power bill of rights
by rachel
Please take a moment to link to the interview with H. Wantue Major. This gifted and highly inspirational man truly embodies personal power, courage, and the role of the arts in the face of conflict and human oppression. In the “be whole now” realm, personal power has nothing whatsoever to do with being more powerful than anyone else, exercising control over others, or holding great influence by dint of status, wealth, education, prestige, or economics. Your personal power is the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, love, personal growth, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, change, consciousness, empowerment, life, personal power, recovery, wisdom
