Amazing how you wrote that around the frog and it fit so perfectly and looks like water. Beautiful and meaningful poem. Your voice sounds super good. And like the pauses.
Rebecca, I really love this. I've returned to it three times to sit myself down next to the questions you ask. I love the changing current of it; flowing from a place of tension (for me) in the liminal space, to a state of acceptance and allowing ("drop the story"), and finally to the state of potential reconciliation.
I find myself particularly draw to the duality of the Dreamer and Achiever. I can totally relate to those identities as I recognize both in me. Lately, I've decided to trust the former by giving him the car keys to my life. I am literally going to let him take me where ever he wants to go. The latter I have stuffed into the trunk; he's already much too much of the driving thus far.
Yet the idea of both these two exploring the murky waters together is how I really want things to be. I'm curious to know you envision living into that in your own life? For me, Achiever guy definitely has some very helpful, proven skills. But dang, the moment he gets into the car he always grabs the wheel! In fairness, Dreamer guy lets him do it. Because he doesn't fully trust himself...yet. (I'm working on that with him.)
My hope is that eventually Dreamer will drive and Achiever will ride shotgun next to him. And anytime Achiever tries to grab the wheel, Dreamer will just smile back and say, "No, thank you. You can trust me. We've got this."
What an honor to receive such detailed feedback about how this piece has stirred you! I just love the image of you placing more and more trust in your Dreamer-self to get behind the wheel and drive. For me, I have the opposite challenge! I used to be very high-achieving, but that has relaxed quite a lot over the years. I suppose I need to re-integrate my Achiever part in a way that honors the big picture Dreamer, still working on that one :)
Your summary of the piece taking you from the tension of the liminal to the acceptance and subsequent surrender of the egoic story to the final place of potential for reconciliation just blew me away! I didn't even see it like this, so thank you for pointing out this flow. I wrote this poem in a stream of consciousness thought with no pre-planned structure of any kind, over the course of two sittings. A true work of art in that sense, I suppose :)
Marc, I really appreciate your energy here and continue to admire your way with words, my fellow creator!
Amazing how you wrote that around the frog and it fit so perfectly and looks like water. Beautiful and meaningful poem. Your voice sounds super good. And like the pauses.
Thanks Bek!! I so appreciate your comment 🙏🥰 It didn't even occur to me that the words of the poem resemble ripples of water. Very cool 🐸
Rebecca, I really love this. I've returned to it three times to sit myself down next to the questions you ask. I love the changing current of it; flowing from a place of tension (for me) in the liminal space, to a state of acceptance and allowing ("drop the story"), and finally to the state of potential reconciliation.
I find myself particularly draw to the duality of the Dreamer and Achiever. I can totally relate to those identities as I recognize both in me. Lately, I've decided to trust the former by giving him the car keys to my life. I am literally going to let him take me where ever he wants to go. The latter I have stuffed into the trunk; he's already much too much of the driving thus far.
Yet the idea of both these two exploring the murky waters together is how I really want things to be. I'm curious to know you envision living into that in your own life? For me, Achiever guy definitely has some very helpful, proven skills. But dang, the moment he gets into the car he always grabs the wheel! In fairness, Dreamer guy lets him do it. Because he doesn't fully trust himself...yet. (I'm working on that with him.)
My hope is that eventually Dreamer will drive and Achiever will ride shotgun next to him. And anytime Achiever tries to grab the wheel, Dreamer will just smile back and say, "No, thank you. You can trust me. We've got this."
What an honor to receive such detailed feedback about how this piece has stirred you! I just love the image of you placing more and more trust in your Dreamer-self to get behind the wheel and drive. For me, I have the opposite challenge! I used to be very high-achieving, but that has relaxed quite a lot over the years. I suppose I need to re-integrate my Achiever part in a way that honors the big picture Dreamer, still working on that one :)
Your summary of the piece taking you from the tension of the liminal to the acceptance and subsequent surrender of the egoic story to the final place of potential for reconciliation just blew me away! I didn't even see it like this, so thank you for pointing out this flow. I wrote this poem in a stream of consciousness thought with no pre-planned structure of any kind, over the course of two sittings. A true work of art in that sense, I suppose :)
Marc, I really appreciate your energy here and continue to admire your way with words, my fellow creator!
Reminds me of a dance
Soft flow
ever changing
moving in space,
for a moment here
a slide to the left
There, spine tingles
In flight
rhythmically
suspended
In it all
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Beautiful verse, thank you dear one 💖🐸
Stillness and Patience, two things we all need in our fast-paced lives.