When the Other listens
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤin that gentle way
My voice, my words, held
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤin tender hands
— yes and yes —
And when the Other listens
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤin that Liquid Way
Sacred hands feel into my chest
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤto embrace my Liquid Heart
Writer’s notes: This little poem discovered itself during a short writing session inspired by a prompt drawn from “The Dream Keepers,” by Langston Hughes. I sat Zooming with a group of other poet/mystics in “Opening the Mystic Heart through Poetry,” a poetry circle created and lead by the beautiful heart of Susan O’Connell.
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