Skye Stephenson
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Treasure
Hidden in the dew, unbidden and away from your daily new, a treasure enfolded in the now– its gift is nothing and it gives it all to you. From Skye Stephenson, Mystic Mourn: Poems (2015) Continue reading
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Slouching towards Love
The title of this article has arrived to me and yet as I begin to write I am not sure how it will unfold. A few hours ago I had a different idea for this column in mind, but after a heart to heart conversation with a family member on a challenging topic, “love” entered Continue reading
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Turquoise Eagle Wings
Yesterday’s rhymes don’t work anymore — Don’t you know bro’ that we’re in another space another place. The river’s run dry The earth no longer touches the sky. Insides are out and my belly button’s shriveled and dried. Clouds of adamant fumes: The lights always burn — No refuge. No wonder they cry in the Continue reading
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Darkness and Dreaming
There is an intimate connection between darkness and dreaming, and both of these essential elements and qualities of human life are woefully weak for many of us in modern-day life. In the hustle and bustle of doing and achieving; in the high techie-ness of our daily lives; in the many demands and expectations our society Continue reading
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Dreaming Dreams Awake
Dreaming Dreams AwakePublished in “Monadnock Shopper” My father used to entertain me with his two favorite stories. The first was about a man who dreamed every night that he was a butterfly. The vision was so real that when he woke up, he was not sure if he was a man dreaming he was a Continue reading
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Message from Salmon-Sacred Beauty
Salmon Message – Sacred Beauty Sacred beauty comes From the heart of you When in judgement true Given from the heart of you You love all god’s creations – The big and the small, The infirm and the tall, With openhearted acceptance of them Just as they are. As you flow in your own life Continue reading
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Salmon Spirit Message #1
Salmon Spirit Message #1 My name is Salmon of the vibrant tribe – I ask you what it is that makes you happy, What it is that makes you feel alive? I don’t soar in the sky Like eagle feather – my friend spouse – And I don’t forage through the bushes and tress Like Continue reading
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The Cave and the Candle
It feels good to be writing a healing column again for the Shopper after a four month hiatus at my request. Something in me urged me to “take some time off” from writing this column and I am very grateful that the wonderful folks at the Shopper allowed me a few months break to recharge. Continue reading
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Half past three of my life
Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy Unruly child Hair in my eyes I try To get by In an upside world Where too much order reigns riot and out of sorts. Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy That’s what I once was Before too many crimes I didn’t commit Passed before my eyes In ecstasies of feathered Continue reading
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I
I I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be you and it and they Anything but I What a terrible I am I! I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be a rainbow a leaf aquiet doe nuzzling in the dark I wanted to be other than I, anything Continue reading
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