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A Workshop in Sacred Poetry
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Listen to the presences inside poems.
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
And never leave the premises.
—Jellaluddin Rumi
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What language does your soul speak?
The experience of meeting the sacred in the world, in nature, within yourself or another person, is difficult to express in words. Your deep breath, a look of awe, the upwelling feeling of love from a deep inward place, a shattering of old ways of thinking, the caring embrace of another, tears streaming down your cheeks or simple silence opening out – all these are sometimes the only way to express this ineffable, wordless space. This is when your experience...
...all of a sudden
turns to a surprisingly vibrant sky
as your eyes widen ever-so-slightly
in a recognition that shimmers
under your skin, wells-up
into a calm line-of-sight
that is your own and goes on
almost forever...
—John Fox from Consider What Happens
Another way to revive this connection to Spirit is through poetry. Poem-making is the language of your heart. This workshop is designed to evoke your unique soul voice. There is no one else who can express your experience of living life.
This workshop will explore the question: What opens your heart?
We will look at the way sacred poetry and our own writing can help tune us to choice, insight, possibility and joy. Using the poetry of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Rumi, Jane Kenyon, young children, Mary TallMountain, Zen poets, and Psalms of David; poets that tune us to a sacred presence and inspire our writing.
Throughout the workshop, we will savor these poems and find ways to enter the sacred space of what unfolds from within us and can surround and hold us when we listen deeply.
To find a Soul's Language Workshop, check the Classes & Workshop Schedule
Goto the next workshop title, Poems of Witness: Living with Heart in a Conflicted World |
