Luminous Blue

Tag: surrender

  • With Night – a poem by Sabine Miller

    Thank you Sabine, for this beauty. Sharing with love and appreciation.

    With Night

    – For Lucia on the anniversary of Elizabeth’s death

    Blue lacewing
    singing
    in the atrium

    at summer’s end
    coaxed
    into open palms

    where it stays
    even while
    being waved

    through the garden,
    oak crickets,
    old moonlight –

    Meanwhile
    soliloquies
    of poets and healers

    echo inside:
    A mother dwelling
    in pastures

    of surrender
    helps one daughter
    die-before-she-dies, held

    in the heart of
    her mother’s hands –
    in the heart of a Hand

    she’s a blue,
    Blue rose as
    open as it gets,

    the petals the waves
    she’ll return
    in – the rosebud

    she’ll become
    is starlight
    packed in

    tight and deeper
    than one can
    fathom with this

    mind, on this
    night.

    By Sabine Miller ©, 2014

  • A Cancer Poem – by Elizabeth Blue

    A Cancer Poem

    written by Elizabeth Blue during her treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, 2012

    As I pray to the goddesses of white blood cells
    to increase my cell counts
    so I won’t get sick.
    Won’t get a fever and go to the hospital.
    It becomes more apparent
    to me
    than ever:
    that gentle hand of grace
    we call god
    is in
    my own body.

    As I pray to the goddesses of white blood cells
    to increase their numbers
    so that
    I won’t get sick.
    I won’t get a fever
    and go to the hospital.
    And I imagine my fate
    hinged on their fingernail
    I know more than ever
    that twisting fate
    we call god
    is in
    is part of
    my own self body.

    Victoria told me
    a shaman told her
    so many ask
    beg
    to meet God.
    And then they say:
    “But:
    keep my children safe.”
    “Keep me healthy.”
    “Don’t send me to war.”
    “Let me be prosperous.”
    “Let me be in love.”
    “Keep divorce away.”
    “Let me be beautiful.”

    And Victoria told me
    she thought it was interesting
    the unwillingness to surrender
    yet want to meet God.
    We were talking about cancer I think
    When she told me all this.
    “Yes it is interesting.”
    I agreed.

    Elizabeth Blue©, 2012

    I’m sharing some of Elizabeth’s poetry as I am able, selecting ones that I love, and that offer some deep wisdom, beauty and teachings for us all.