Poetry For Now

HAPPY TRAVELS

October 21, 2020 Martin Strasmore Season 1 Episode 23
Poetry For Now
HAPPY TRAVELS
Show Notes Transcript

Human consciousness is amazing we can choose to be in the past, the present or the future with our memory, our breath, our will and our imagination.
Now in this turbulent time of politics and pandemics,  explore how we can Beam ourselves to places of peace and delight, discovery our own Holy places.  Please travel with me to some I have found in my travels around our world.

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HAPPY TRAVELS

Human consciousness is amazing we can choose to be in the past, the present or the future with our memory, our breath, our will and our imagination. 

We can also go places with other people choosing to get absorbed in their mind’s creations: watching a film and going on their trip, reading a book, Listening to a podcast, hearing a story, reading a poem

Get trapped in FaceTime hoaxes, YouTube videos, tweets

And we always have the choice to create our own story in our own mind.

Now in this turbulent time of politics and pandemics

let’s explore how we can take ourselves to places of peace and delight.



HOLY PLACES, HOLY MOMENTS
Find your holy place and go there

leaving behind the unnecessary.

A holy place

wakes you up

to experience the divine

ever present in the moment.

These places are charged

with love and devotion

that draws one into the heart space.


We think it is the place

but it is the timeless feeling

that we create in our openness

that uplifts our spirits.



BIRTH & DEATH
Holding our new born daughter

against my heart,

a pure being of light

filling us both with unconditional love

forever.


By my mother’s bedside

as her last breath 

peacefully leaves her body,

feeling her soul

gently floating away.

Her body and mind,

clever, generous and loving,

resting in peace now.


MEMORIES FROM THE CAMINO De SANTIAGO
“One God, billions of creatures”

Carved in the smooth rock

as you enter The Labyrinth

that suddenly materialized at the peak

That day on the Camino.


The swinging of the Botafumeiro

pulled high into the air

by the team of monks

as the nuns incantations echo 

around Santiago’s cathedral dome

 if angels exist

This could be their music

To Welcome the pilgrims home



The pilgrimage completed

a night of relaxing Jazz.

meeting George the German minister

standing, talking at midnight 

about Jesus, God and Yoga

a flock of brilliantly lit white birds

rise up as one

circling above the cathedral 

like angels listening to us

letting us know

that whatever our faith

being here at this moment

thinking about God is perfect.


INDIAN MEMORIES
In Delhi

The tomb of Nisramudin

simple and silent inside

echoing with exquisite Qawwalis

sung by ecstatic devotees outside

Spreading the virus of pure joy

As we listen blissfully Intoxicated


Diwali Indian New Year in Varenasi

thousands of floating candles

cover the river Ganges

as bodies are cremated 

and ashes offered into the river

To merge into the Ocean.


 THANA
Squeezing into the taxi rickshaw

with my massive backpack

the golden rays of sunset

seem full of powerful energy


Stepping in through the ashram gate

seeing “Leave your ego with your shoes”

feeling instant contentment and joy

My heart told me I was home.


In Jerusalem 

the flickering array of candles

Spreading a warm glow

As christian devotees bowed heads

touch the stone where Jesus lay

 in the church of the Holy Sepulchre


The dovening Jews 

wrapped in Shiny white prayer shawls

swaying back in forth 

while others place their heart felt prayers

into gaps in the ancient stones 

of the Wailing Wall


In Bhutan

The old Bhuddist lady slowly hobbling

around the massive spinning prayer wheel

spinning her own prayer wheel

Om Mane Padme Om, Om Mane Padme Om


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