Comments on: Sohbet – Nightly Fires

By: dagmar

dagmar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:30:29 +0000

it seems i’m doing everything except what i should be doing today! on of the things i did was to more or less finish writing a poem i started a couple of years ago. then when i checked out your blog it seems appropriate to this thread so i’ll post it (untitled as usual).

dead rabbit across the median
on the other side of the road
my car glides silently to a stop

a clan of ravens seem suspended
waiting for the light to change
companions with relaxed intent

they are full of grace, interested, orderly
their nourishment not taken for granted
in these easy days of late summer

i sit there silently
and in my heart see only beauty

a man pushes a cart climbing the long up-hill
garbage bags hung all around and piled high, high
his own life a blessing to the world

summer bounty too, these bottles
and today i see only beauty

By: Irene

Irene — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:50:54 +0000

Sometimes the darkness is your friend. It allows you to feel some things that the light doesn’t, but it can also trap you into a downward spiral. I visit my darkness from time to time, but I’m wary of the slippery slope. Without the darkness, how would you know what the light looks and feels like?

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:39:18 +0000

okay, finally got a poem on this idea Malc:

You may laugh if you’re simple minded,
no understanding of what you play.
Skimming at the surface
of a lovely jollity.

But laugh you will, I promise,
through the darkness of the day.
When at last you see your role:
straight-man — Divine Comedy

By: Patti

Patti — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:19:58 +0000

a link to my corner of darkness

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=257868911125

Hugs
Patti

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:18:46 +0000

Until I can process this luscious topic enough to write my own poetic contribution here’s some quotations from the book “How to Befriend your Shadow”:

“It is not by looking into the light that we become luminous, but by plunging into the darkness. However, this is often unpleasant work, and therefore not very popular.” Carl G. Jung
“It is better to be complete than perfect.” Carl G. Jung
“I need to welcome myself unreservedly and humbly love myself, my whole self, shadow and light, sweetness and anger, laughter and tears, humiliation and pride. I need to reclaim all of my past, my unadmitted … inadmissible … past.”
Jacques LeClercq