Love locked Out - Merrit
Poetry is for this writer and storyteller one of the seven ways to living a wonderful life. Poetry is the language that invites you to live the wondertale that you are here to tell - not so much in words but as the presence of beauty that is beyond form. It is the one language that will allow you to travel to infinite worlds of potential.
Do you feel yourself to be beautiful? Do you walk in beauty as the Navaho blessing invites you to do? This writer is not simply writing here about being glamorous - but being in direct connection with the essence of who you are. Moving as the grace note you are here to play as part, but never apart from, the pressence of the universal intelligence that your are. This universal intelligence is Love.
Most people, most everyone I know does not consider themselves to be beautiful. They will defend this idea saying that it is a kind of arrogance. Yet look at little children playing for no reason at all and experiencing delight in their natural creative expression.
That is until such time that they are taught such creativity needs to be productively channelled into making something functional.
I tell stories about the Tuatha de Danaan - the beautiful people - who in the myths of Ireland are driven underground. This story, like all mythology, is not just some old story. It is an ever present story of the way we treat ourselves with our conditionality and our inner critic who loves to tell us how inadequate we are. We are the sleeping beauty asleep in the high tower of the intellect that thinks that intellectual knowledge means you understand who you are.
Poetry is the language of the heart that knows beauty. That is why in all the circles I have attended at the Benwiskin Centre I leave a book of poetry on the table in front of the fire. These books invite you into the fire that burns no wood.
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