Some have come and gone. Like Autumn leaves that fall by the wayside and become earth, giving of themselves to beget new growth...there is now space to be filled by what lies ahead.
But in the process, the leaving hurts.
Winter branches crack and give way under foot, giving testament to the change that has taken place.
No ceremony, no poetry, only change.
A painful breaking of cells to make room for new ones.
This is the body of change, the mechanism of life.
Quietness sits like a blanket in the dark weighing heavy, bringing a strange comfort and uncertainty as the air grows still and dampens with cold.
There is a desire to sit and wait, to grow colder as the heart wonders in silence what is to come.
It quickens to keep up with the falling temperature and rapid changes.
The eyes see nothing, stillness, and yet the heart feels something is happening, as these winter changes fall down around us.
This life, unfolding before us, mysteriously lays quiet now.
There are no answers yet, life has gone distant for now. Patience is required.
In the meantime, go and seek the sun.
©10/22/11DanyaMosgofian
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Come Through
Don't wiggle backwards into weakness, for fear of showing me the holes in your spine.
Or cower when I show you mine.
Come through and stay.
©10/11DanyaMosgofian including photograph
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Beckon Me
As Fall may finally be peeking it's head out...I am ready for it and waiting.
I need the softness it begets in me, the intimacy it summons.
In the mean months of Summer, I swell with confusion,
lost in my body's resistance to stay outward and flit about.
From the dark underbelly of the earth, it grows upwards in a slow crawl of secrecy, seducing us in it's subtle arrival. I lavish it's return.
The sweet smell of plant life sticks in the air, flowing through me and leaving it's trace all around my face. A smile grows; not unlike the smile of a wolf as it walks through a quiet forest.
My soul feels welcomed at last...by something. Home perhaps?
Quieted by the silence it creates as the earth grows calmer, I grow within.
The tension in my sides relax, my heart beats in time with the wind and I feel aligned with the world. Settled.
Fall is coming, can you feel it? It's seeping in.
©10/18/11DanyaMosgofian
I need the softness it begets in me, the intimacy it summons.
In the mean months of Summer, I swell with confusion,
lost in my body's resistance to stay outward and flit about.
From the dark underbelly of the earth, it grows upwards in a slow crawl of secrecy, seducing us in it's subtle arrival. I lavish it's return.
The sweet smell of plant life sticks in the air, flowing through me and leaving it's trace all around my face. A smile grows; not unlike the smile of a wolf as it walks through a quiet forest.
My soul feels welcomed at last...by something. Home perhaps?
Quieted by the silence it creates as the earth grows calmer, I grow within.
The tension in my sides relax, my heart beats in time with the wind and I feel aligned with the world. Settled.
Fall is coming, can you feel it? It's seeping in.
©10/18/11DanyaMosgofian
Frozen Web
Something has broken, the web has cracked.
Dried and frozen in time, tendrils that have kept still for so long are tensing up to break free.
In some soft moment passing quickly in time, they speak quietly as if to say, it's safe to let go.
Pull shadows away and a gentle fog rolls in, softening the limbs telling the body there must be more than what has been. But before this can happen, things must be broken, undone.
Things must be ripped and torn into, uncovered in dead spaces so that what lays underneath, can become visible and allowed to breathe. Must and wear can be thrown out, cast into the wind and forgotten but with great effort it will take.
Old becomes uncomfortable, new becomes strangely terrifying and the rest is completely unknown.
Walking out again, wobbly knees and all, steps that have not been written must be taken despite.
Things will grow clear so long as these moments are not wasted upon dizzy-headed memories.
Light will bleed into cold places that have been waiting for warmth long.
The skin warms and muscles soften, then the heart remembers.
Like a soft ungrown animal, the soul lifts itself up and leads the way.
Remember to remember, and give space.
©10/18/11DanyaMosgofian
Dried and frozen in time, tendrils that have kept still for so long are tensing up to break free.
In some soft moment passing quickly in time, they speak quietly as if to say, it's safe to let go.
Pull shadows away and a gentle fog rolls in, softening the limbs telling the body there must be more than what has been. But before this can happen, things must be broken, undone.
Things must be ripped and torn into, uncovered in dead spaces so that what lays underneath, can become visible and allowed to breathe. Must and wear can be thrown out, cast into the wind and forgotten but with great effort it will take.
Old becomes uncomfortable, new becomes strangely terrifying and the rest is completely unknown.
Walking out again, wobbly knees and all, steps that have not been written must be taken despite.
Things will grow clear so long as these moments are not wasted upon dizzy-headed memories.
Light will bleed into cold places that have been waiting for warmth long.
The skin warms and muscles soften, then the heart remembers.
Like a soft ungrown animal, the soul lifts itself up and leads the way.
Remember to remember, and give space.
©10/18/11DanyaMosgofian
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