ON FREEDOM
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett 26 April 2013
What gives us freedom? …
Freedom to leave the subconscious scenarios.
Freedom to let go our fixed ideas.
Freedom to feel joy.
Freedom to travel time and space.
Freedom to co-create tomorrow …
The human heart.
Not the mind, mind you.
Just the heart.
Written on 27 September 2011; published on 1 January 2019; republished on 16 December 2020
LIKE THE FABLED PIED PIPER
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett 27 September 2011
Like the fabled pied piper,
Microsoft and Apple
have taken away
our children
from their families.
It’s not just
the grief
of a little village.
The entire world mourns.
–from Link: “Like the Fabled Pied Piper,” a prose poem by Alice B. Clagett, written on 27 September 2011; published on 1 January 2019; republished on 16 December 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-l4a ..
EL CORAZON
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett ca. 2010
A man told me something once,
and my mind keeps floating back to it
from time to time.
Not just to the words,
but to the way he said them
— with such certain, tender dignity.
“We are La Raza.
And what makes us
different from other people?”
He touched his chest.
“El corazón.”
–from Link: “El Corazon,” a prose poem by Alice B. Clagett, written ca. 2010; published on 1 January 2019; republished on 16 December 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-l4e ..
Written on 27 January 2012; published on 31 December 2018; republished on 16 December 2020
AN INCOMPLETE RHYME
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett 27 January 2012
May I be like the Yerba Santa,
able to take the heat,
to live in the rough, wild places
turning my face to Thee;
Blessed with the power to heal
in my flowers, my leaves and my roots.
May the eyes of the world walk right by me,
and never so much as look.
–from Link: “An Incomplete Rhyme,” a prose poem by Alice B. Clagett, written on 27 January 2012; published on 31 December 2018; republished on 16 December 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-l2y ..
Filmed on 2 May 2015; published on 9 May 2015; revised
Location: Hawaii
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
THE HUMAN HEART, A poem by Alice B. Clagett
VIDEO BY ALICE
Dear Ones,
In this video is a poem about the human heart. As the audio quality of this video is poor, I added captions to the video, and put the Summary above the video in the blog …
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Dear Ones,
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice.
I would like to talk a little about the energy of the human heart. I was just sitting here thinking about it. I will try to repeat what I was thinking …
THE HUMAN HEART
A poem by Alice B. Clagett 9 May 2015
The human heart,
it’s not like in the pictures …
It’s more like the wind.
It’s like when the sun rises, and the sun sets.
Or the moon rises, and the moon sets …
and sometimes waxes, and sometimes wanes.
It’s like birth …
and death and rebirth …
and death and rebirth …
and death.
It’s like that.
It moves in and out
and as it moves in and out,
as we feel it moving in and out,
it organizes
and crystallizes
the energy of all the other chakras….
The action of the mind,
which ceaselessly divides,
and labels and classifies,
and judges,
and criticizes …
like a tide of water in a bay,
it rolls over all that,
smoothes it out,
makes it just one small part
of all that we are
and as the heart’s energy
rolls outward in every direction
it smoothes out all the energy
of the vital body
leaving us with
that tide
that pull
that glad return
that joyous surge
of being
LOVE BY THE OUNCE, a Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett
Dear Ones,
Here is a poem about love …
LOVE BY THE OUNCE
A Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett 24 February 2013
We sell our selves down the river by the ounce, not by the pound,
As politicians sell the common good to special interest groups.
Little by little. Principle by principle. Love by tiny hopeful love.
Like a baby crying for its mother
Like a viola longing for a bow
Like the self, fabricating other
As the still stream dreams the raging torrent
As Earth longs for the presence of her children
Like grace, never ending, never known
Image: “Redbud in Bloom, Angeles Crest,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2015, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Redbud in Bloom, Angeles Crest,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2015, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
–from Link: “Love by the Ounce,” a Prose Poem by Alice B. Clagett, written in 2015; published on 24 February 2013 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5vN ..
