What is Vitality..?

What is Vitality..?

Asking myself this question

on a sunny morning..

the word seemed common

in separate readings..

a subtle awareness

enfolds mind and body..

awareness which visits

places pleasant and strange

strange even threatening..

but awareness asserts:

visiting the strange

stimulates my being

meets my need..

and here comes a squirrel

tail twitching

teeth quick in sitting

and eating..

Vitality exclaiming again..!

awareness investigates

awareness investigates

awareness as our oneness

as energetic substance

surrounds and penetrates

really all in all..

yet we are here

 my table

my pen

my paper

my poem

my self..

and what is awareness

doing this morning..?

investigating what it 

makes of itself:

table

pen

paper

poem

self...

at sunset

at sunset

a lowering bright sun

seeks dark forms for

splashing its light..

OR

day's end bright sunlight 

exploring and discovering

finding its rays

in many dark forms

made of light...

Evolution...

The Blue Heron

The Blue Heron

my Friend follows 

her own Friend

her blue heron

in these weeks

since spring began..

yet on this morning

of sun and warm

her bird of longing

expressed dismay of

a closer encounter..

flapping wings and

croaking voice spoke of

dismissal and rejection..

yet my dear Friend

teaches us all

that deep rejection

names pure grace...

Visions of New Being (Amazon Review)

Amazon Review of:

Visions of New Being

Meditations and Poems

by

Robin Izer

This is a revelatory and potentially revolutionary book of meditation and poetry..!

The book is essentially a guide, which gently, and sometimes not so gently, assists a reader's awakening to their own inner consciousness or awareness..a crucially necessary evolutionary discovery for persons living in our world today.  Robin Izer, in the powerful brevity of her poetry, shares her "Visions.." of who and what we might (must) become (really already are) as awakened spiritual citizens of the world.  She organizes her words into four sections (gateways actually) as entry points for enlightening our lives. These are:  Seeing,  Practice, Loving, and Earth. The four sections both stand alone and are holographically linked.  All of her poems are intimately experiential for her, connecting her (and our) vision and practice, insight and grounding.  And there are awakening shocks:

DEATH

The last person
I touched 
before I died
was my killer--
the knife
ripped my flesh
exploded
my heart--
my eyes pierced his
and with
soft utter surprise
I whispered
I love you
then effortlessly 
fell into his arms.

A most unusual and transformative book..easily a Five-Star recommendation..!!

Still point

Still point

considering our outward flows

these creations of beauty and

the hiding of truth through

sharp turns and cunning separation

claiming attention and fear until

arriving at a point of desperation..

we hear from someone somewhere

of our need to reverse and return

we are shown the power of surrender

and find the joy of converging upon

our Still point... 

Base security

Base security

feelings of cleanliness and discipline

imposed and this morning appreciated..

with my return and memories arising

these impositions on freedom
ingredients of order
through warnings and cautions

seemed as doses of curative 
to pains of excesses

readily re-appearing

 when departing

base security...

(Visit to a military installation

and remembering experiences

and assumptions...)