i carry your heart
February 14, 2007 at 9:15 pm (Valentine's Day, arts, creative visualisation, creativity, family, inspiration, inspirational, love, poetry, relationships, spiritual, spiritual journey, spirituality, transformation)
I didn’t want to leave! I loved all the people in that room dearly! I knew them inside out and they knew me. We had spent 6 days in the Poconos at a retreat together, doing life changing, gut wrenching, AHA! and laugh til you can’t breathe work alongside each other. And now we were supposed to scatter to different states and countries and lead our separate lives. Our group leader then read a poem by ee cummings that made me see how once people have touched you deeply, they never leave you. We carry each other in our hearts. I am essentially a collage of hearts and lives and smiles and hugs of those who I have been priveleged to know authentically.
This is the best love poem that I’ve ever found. I dedicate it today to my husband.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Happy Valentine’s Day to YOU! Celebrate all who have touched your heart today!
Suresh Gundappa said,
February 14, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Happy valentine’s day to you and your blog which touches so many readers hearts!
in2l said,
February 14, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Well, your husband is a lucky guy!
I truly love the line in this poem
“…this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).”
Peace and Love to All your readers on this heartfelt day.
SurfaceEarth said,
February 14, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Lovely, lovely, lovely!
Jennifer Verdi said,
February 14, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Happy valintines day!!!!
Good luck with you and your husband!
http://www.verdispoetry.com
Nicola said,
February 15, 2007 at 1:19 am
Beautiful sentiments and I love the photomontage - Happy Valentines Day!
dragonmommie said,
February 15, 2007 at 3:18 am
Happy Valentine’s Day! Beautiful poem and I love the collage of photos…. especially the book pages bent to form a heart.
spasmicallyperfect said,
February 15, 2007 at 3:45 am
Happy Valentine’s Day your way!
,
Have a feeling I would have loved that retreat thing. Would love to hear more.
Wondered where you went…. welcome back! We missed you….
And thanks for letting me celebrate you
radiantwoman said,
February 15, 2007 at 1:32 pm
You did it again! Beautfiul.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
meena said,
February 15, 2007 at 3:56 pm
the most beautiful expressions of love a woman can express. keep going i get very senti when i read such things you are very beautiful within and thats a gift rare .
Desiree said,
February 16, 2007 at 12:33 am
Aww! Those were very beautiful sentiments and lovely photos! Thanks for always sharing these marvelous photos with us! They always add joy to my day.
sarah flanigan said,
February 21, 2007 at 9:44 am
oh i adore that poem! it always gives me chills and tears.
i love too that you think of yourself as a collage of hearts - what a beautiful thing to be.
i hope you had a lovely valentines day.
sarah
simplybeing said,
March 28, 2007 at 6:27 am
Surely you always live in Valentine’s day as a collage of hearts. This beautiful image will stay with me always.
ee cummings has always been my favorite poet. Thank you for bringing me back to his poetry today!
The line “whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling”
captures something I realized not too long ago about the work my husband and I do. We’ve experienced so clearly that even when we seem to be doing something alone (I writing, he composing music) it is an expression of our one soul. What we create comes always from both of us. I’d forgotten this line which expresses that so perfectly.
Thank you for your beautiful blog. Your photos are breathtaking and always reflect so perfectly what you are writing about.
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February 11, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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February 11, 2008 at 3:06 pm
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