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Soul: The Wandering Jewel  Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
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What is my soul, but a wandering jewel ~ dew on a spider's web, snow on a pine?
What is my soul, seeker of knowledge, knower of secrets, but the song of a bird,
a wave on the ocean, the infinite sky ~
the magic of winter, the promise of spring…
Gypsy, vagabond, lover, beloved, wise woman, energy, spirited wind…
Moonlight, sunlight, firelight, star, shadows, darkness, deep, & dreams…
There is a way of being in the world ~
the poets know this. The mystics know this.
A way of rivers and moonlight and dust,
winding roads and featherbeds….
Soul knows intimately nothingness and fullness;
dreams dressed in words, the meanings of words
and of Meaning itself…
Oh why do I feel my soul, with all of her wayfaring, is less lost than I who stays home?
Come with me, she says. Send me a postcard, I say.
Come to me, I call. Will you make me a cake? she asks…
Light a candle, she says, run me a bath…
Wait for the rain, and we'll go walking in the woods, along the sea….
Take up your broom, she says, or, brush your daughter's golden hair.
Pour your love into anything, she says,
even the smallest chore,
and I will cease my wandering.
And I'll return to be
the treasure in the lotus;
the jewel in your heart.
Copyright 2008/2009 Ingrid Goff Maidoff, all rights reserved.
Ingrid Goff-Maidoff is a poet, nectar seeker, and book artist who lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including her gift book collections on Friendship, Happiness, and Love from Andrews McMeel Publishing. Her hand-made books and gifts for heart-centered living are lovely remembrances of the spiritual realm, and are available through: http://www.tendingjoy.com
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"What if we were all connected by a loving thread?
What if heaven was not separate from earth?
What then, my friend, what then?"
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff,
Postcards from the Landscape of Joy
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