 SUMMER
In Chinese medicine the summer season represents the FIRE PHASE
and corresponds with the heart organ, the emotion of joy, the
color red, inspiration, desire, full-bodied expression and extroversion.
Poetry that nourishes the spirit of our Fire Elements is filled
with the correspondences of summer and the Fire
Phase.
CATCH FIRE
(G,A)
Walking out to sea
The body alive in purple waters
Reflecting red and orange sunrise.
What you do and live must catch
Fire to the waking depths inside you.
Do not settle for the concept of experience,
Writing what you will not lead
Or the burden of reading
What you will not be.
Following the birds to the horizon,
I lost this song
To fly.
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CATCH FIRE:
I wrote Catch Fire during a particularly fiery period
when poetry was erupting from me uncontrollably night and day.
I remember during this time how I could not even take a walk
without being driven to song. It was actually very frustrating
time because I was always on the job, being constantly harassed
and dictated to by the poem faeries.
Catch
Fire came through me one morning as I walked out to the
ocean for a walk. This day I was determined to take a walk
without having to write, but Catch
Fire came through anyway, true to the fire of inspiration. The last stanza
tells of my last desperate effort to escape the poem by joining the birds.
It didn’t work. So, I wrote Catch Fire down when I got back to my car.
Catch
Fire exemplifies the Fire Phase for me because
it speaks to the inspiration, exuberance and courage (derived
form the French word cour, meaning heart) necessary
to listen to and follow our hearts and truest desires. Catch Fire is part of
the “Healing Poem Cards” series and
is also available in calligraphy as Poetry-Art.
(Click
on the symbols below) 
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*Poems marked with a "G" after
their title are available as greeting
cards.
Poems marked with an "A" are available as original
calligraphy art pieces. |
