CREATIVITY AND OTHER LIFE QUALITIES: Something Greater, My Poem in Avocet

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Something Greater, My Poem in Avocet

Something Greater

Matt. 12:38-42

In the first bird

who keeps

singing

one note

pouring her

solitude

and longing

at last into

the waking

chorus

of morning

are reminded

with vigor

and relentlessness

that we are called to be

part of the chorus

and that something

far greater

than Jonah

and Solomon

is present

here with us.

If nature inspires you to write or take pictures, and you blog about that, let me know so I can have a look at your creativity too.

4 comments:

AnonymousJune 28, 2012 at 1:09 PM
We all need to hear this message and to grasp it... to embrace it.

Joey
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D.M. SOLISJune 29, 2012 at 6:55 AM
Thanks, Joey. So good to see you here. And you're right--the chorus would not be the music would not be as rich without your voice.

Peace,
Diane
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matt at shadow of irisJuly 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM
The image of a chorus is a nice one. Even if we all sing a different key, we still might harmonize. :)
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D.M. SOLISAugust 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Thanks, Matt. You're right. Sounds and voices are like colors. It would be shame if we only had a few on a limited sound-palette.

Hope you're having a wonderful week.

Peace,
Diane
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Diane Solis, Brief Bio:

Poet, science writer, visual artist, singer of story songs--my recent work appears or is forthcoming in Avocet, Packingtown Review, G&L Review/Worldwide, Short, Fast, and Deadly, and elsewhere. I've taught English, art, and religious studies at public and private high schools and have held a few other positions over the years to support my creative habits, including lab tech, science writer, and technical editor in the Pacific Southwest, most recently at Caltech. I practice contemplative and Zen forms of meditation and am few places happier than out hiking the trails. Many of the pics you see here are from my travels through remote places to photograph and write about the natural world. www.dmsolis.blogspot.com

The Latest Quotes for Contemplation:

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, age after age, forever. ~ Tagore

I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world.... ~ Frank O'Hara

Of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one. ~Pablo Neruda

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. ~Joan Chittister

When I say be creative, I don't mean you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. ~ Osho

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier? ~ Mary Oliver

Without warning, as a whirlwind swoops on an oak, Love shakes my heart. ~ Sappho

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
T.S. Eliot, from "Little Gidding"

Love many things, for therein lies your true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well... ~ Vincent van Gogh

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions. ~ Jane Goodall

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone--we find it with another. ~Thomas Merton

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
~John F. Kennedy

I cannot write convincingly about anything that I am not passionate about. ~Darrell Bourque, Poet Laureate of Louisiana

In the lover's heart is a lute which plays the melody of longing. ~Rumi

But perhaps the most important thing about my father was that he taught us the simplest things -- Navajo things -- like how to just sit and be quiet, to blend in and watch, or to move so silently we'd become a part of the forest. My father taught us how to live the concepts of our culture, especially the importance of communicating with the natural world. ~Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D.

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Something Greater, My Poem in Avocet

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