Showing posts with label expand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expand. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Expansion

Our journeys take us different places. We all expand... differently.

I remember
In college,
Sitting in the coffee shop
With a Christian fundamentalist friend.
I drew pictures
On a napkin
Of how I believe
God works:
God in the middle
Of everything,
With so many lines
To approach Him
Or Her.
He grew more and more
Agitated
One Way
He said.
Then he repeated
One Way.
My friend
Had dabbled in the occult,
Had become a Mormon
For awhile.
He found a home
In college,
A Quaker college
(at that).
One Way
He repeated
One Way.
We finished our coffee.
He became
Roman Catholic.
I went to seminary.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Realization

The haiku is often like a burp. It comes on me suddenly, even if it has been percolating for minutes, hours, days, months, even years. Trust the process I remind myself. Trust the process. It's all process. Write it down. Even if it's short, not fully developed.

I realize
Slowly I realize
It’s time to expand.