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世界渴望更多描绘日常生活的诗人

环顾四周,我的心在那些沉默沉重得令人窒息的地方破碎。它萦绕在陌生人之间不再相见的沉默中,萦绕在那些曾经因联结而繁荣,如今却支离破碎的社群中。我们停止搭建的桥梁,我们为了效率而放弃的同理心,这些缺失让我们每个人都感到沉重。我从孩子们黯淡的眼神中看到了这一点,他们曾经明亮的梦想如今却要面对一个用数字和任务衡量价值的世界,他们早已忘记了最初教会他们好奇的魔法。



即使在最拥挤的人群中,孤独的痛楚依然挥之不去;在无情的节奏中,人与人之间的联结逐渐消逝,这种失衡令人窒息。冷酷高效的体制碾碎了生命脆弱的美丽,将复杂的生命简化为毫无生气的交易。有时,我会想,我们是否已经忘记了如何倾听——倾听彼此,倾听大地,倾听树木和风,它们曾经轻声诉说着我们早已铭记于心的真理。

然而,希望如潮水般悄然升起,却又执着不息。它体现在最简单的举动中——与陌生人分享一个微笑,伸出一只善意的手。它存在于那些驻足聆听、不仅倾听内心声音,也倾听他人无声需求的人们的勇气之中。海洋不知疲倦地向海岸涌来,这提醒我:坚持本身就是一种诗意,它承诺着改变永远皆有可能。我看到希望播撒在不适宜生长的土壤中的种子,看到希望化绝望为神圣的奉献之举。它存在于人类精神的韧性之中,这种韧性一次又一次地升起,敢于相信一个更美好的世界。最重要的是,我看到希望存在于人们日益增长的认知之中:爱——温柔、坚定、毫不妥协的力量——或许终将改变我们身后留下的制度和故事。

对我而言,通往更深层次真理的道路并非某个瞬间的顿悟,而是一种轻柔而反复的推动。它像一种编织在我生命肌理中的模式——一种世界节奏略微错乱的感觉,仿佛存在交响曲中缺失了一个音符。这些时刻往往不期而至,在言语间的静默中,在对话结束后久久萦绕心头的疑问里。我记得自己曾站在浩瀚的夜空下,惊叹的不是繁星,而是环绕它们的寂静。那寂静仿佛充满生命力,邀请我去问那些我尚不知如何表达的问题。

我们为什么会在这里?

真正活着的意义是什么?

我们如何将神圣融入日常生活?

开启这扇门的并非醍醐灌顶的顿悟,而是缓缓展开的过程。世界的真理并非完整地呈现在我面前,而是以碎片的形式——通过经历、人际交往,以及某种更宏大力量的静谧牵引——逐渐显现。这种对意义的追寻并非为了寻找答案,而是为了学会与问题共处,让它们如同阴云密布的夜晚中的星辰般指引我。

我如今最关心的问题是:我如何才能通过自身的存在去服务他人?这并非关乎惊天动地的举动或非凡的壮举,而是关乎静默存在的力量。我逐渐领悟到,服务不仅在于我们做了什么,更在于我们如何存在于这个世界。它体现在我们如何问候陌生人,如何倾听他人的故事,以及如何将感恩融入平凡的日常之中。

作为一个内心充满诗意的人,我常常思考,我的文字,我的视角,能否融入日常生活的点点滴滴。如果诗歌不仅仅存在于诗句之中,也存在于对话、举止,以及最细微的互动之中,那会怎样?我能否通过我的存在,为平凡的生活增添一丝奇妙,点燃一丝火花,让生命更显鲜活?

因此,我把这个问题当作一盏明灯,照亮我的道路:我如何才能将生活的诗意带入平凡之中,不是为了逃避它,而是为了赋予它活力?我如何才能不试图改变世界,而是通过自身的存在,让世界感受到一丝完整,从而去服务于世界?

服务就是融入世界。
就目前而言,
不是带着答案,
但要保持开放的态度
这会促使其他人心软,
相信静谧的交响乐
共同生活。

这是作品——
让你的存在激起细小的涟漪
感受他们世界的浩瀚,
结果发现这就足够了。

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Lindsey Royal Wayland Mar 7, 2025
I fully agree. I have been saying how important the everyday is and how poets that celebrate the mundane are essential right now. We are lighting the way. Beautiful poem and thank you for sharing.
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Sally Mahe Jan 7, 2025
Profound! Such a true way to face the dark cauldron and collective fears of these times. Thank you very much.
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Kate Dec 31, 2024
You speak to my heart. So true , so profound , so simple and so easy to forget. Your words frame my intention for the new year ahead. Thank you for your wise words.
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Ildikó Dec 24, 2024
Wonderful. Simple and beautiful. Thank you 💗
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Adeline del Riego Dec 17, 2024
This is the sweetest, wisest and most beautifully expressed inner feeling, soul, heart...(I'm lost for words!). So powerful and meaningful and so delicately conveyed. A balm to the heart. So grateful for this. Bless you sweet soul ❤
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Teresa Morris Dec 17, 2024
Thank you, Deepa for this beautifully, poetic piece. Your phrases about learning to sit with the questions, and serving by inviting others to soften have touched and inspired my heart and mind.
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Patrick aka anonemoose monk Dec 16, 2024
Our simple lives are the poetry we all need, the poetry the Earth once heard and longs for again. }:- a.m.
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Shelley Heller Dec 16, 2024
You spoke my heart.
Thank you.
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Jo Neal Graves Dec 16, 2024
These are some heart warming and beautiful words! Thank you from my heart!
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Dale Biron Dec 16, 2024
This is a beautiful essay. And the lines of poetry at the end, a kind of delicious summary. Just yesterday I was musing about the best kinds of stories... The best stories refuse to stay in their word-crafted lanes. Refuse reduction to a kind of linear, logical set of steps between here and there. Rather, such stories are pointers, lifting us up and off the ground, as we rise into places we can go and do go, but can't explain.
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Kathy Sparks Dec 16, 2024
Such a beautiful rendering! It has inspired me to be more conscious in my "mundane" interactions with the world.
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Lulu Dec 16, 2024
This is an exquisite sharing. I’m already feeling great inspiration by the words shared here. Thank you so very much. So grateful for this “poet” sharing…how to bring our poetry into our energetic worlds of daily life.
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AAKASH SAGAR CHOUHAN Dec 16, 2024
Shards of Granite

recipients of elements wither not sparring
sharing colors on half masts, although ours
porridge waits by your window
children need to learn and know
sow not another seed of hatred to crow
silence stays arranged outside closed shutters
was designed destiny for all trash cans to slag
to dispose
to decompose.

Green she evolved to be for man grins at what all she shows
tumult, turmoil, turbulence, tensile tug of wars
peace drifts away not from the clouds
does harmony needles a reason to bow
everytime the whistle blows to sentence foul
bullets of now have choked guns of tomorrow somehow
carnival of love has awakened the gnosis of aeons
destiny was designed for foxes to get gone
"blood on the dance floor"
whitewashed bureau
files of x’s lie on desks of y's globe.
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Susan S Clark Dec 16, 2024
Deepa - what a gift these reflections are. Thank you! Yes, I too have found such nourishing spiritual sustenance in the everyday interactions of mutuality rooted in Life and Love - between people, vines, spiders, birds and more. My unfolding keeps inviting me to tune into these interstitial sparks of the heart. My ears receive a gloriously continuous call and response of poetry and song just beneath the surface of this false veneer that we are separate individuals. You ask "how do we carry the sacred into the ordinary"? I have become so besottedly turned inside out by the cosmic chorus that a question burbles up in response to yours: "How does each ordinary everyday interaction invite us to carry its potency of the sacred into the next encounter and exchange?"
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Mayda Narvey Dec 16, 2024
I am very moved by this article. Where can I read more of Deepa’s writing?
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Pat Davis Dec 16, 2024
Wonderful article - thanks! In appreciation, I'd like to share a haiku of mine:
the rest of its life
in my hand...
snowflake
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Nathalie Sorrell Dec 16, 2024
Wake…reach for journal
Writing insights dreams revealing
All I need for NOW

Now all I can know
Is enough! Spirit wakes and
I’m Attending! Now

Is all we’re given. Thank You!
Love abounds! I’ll pass forward
This Presence today.

Nature offers me
Opportunities - grateful
I pay attention!

Run-on Haiku form
Distills fine wine of this life,
I drink it all in.

My morning blessing:
Be Here NOW! It’s all we have!
It is abundance.

Share what I’m given.
There are no strangers. Family
Of God- are we all.
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Linda Dec 16, 2024
I believe this says what so many of us feel. Thank you for these words to ponder.
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Roz Bound Dec 16, 2024
Everywhere, Every Day, by Roz Bound The sun begins to climb behind the trees across the fields. Her fire-flares warm my body, stir sleepy bones, soothe waking shadow-cares, spiriting my day. I breathe the morning air. Her windy breath inflates my lungs only to leave again and swirl in ancient life long fed by souls of all eternity, ancestors’ harmony. The tide is high today, its equal level in my body rises, inspires passion, Divine delight to paint, to dance, to write a poem, enchanting gifts to Her through me. Soup bubbles in the pot. I peel carrots, yams, weep over onions, scatter spices, shave ginger root, pour cream. Her fragrance rises in the steam, fills the pot with love. We talk of dreams. Beneath the moon, She’d brought me messages I try to understand too soon. Friends listen, mirror back Her intention-words, Her gentle touch. We walk the labyrinth. Vibrations rise up through my thighs, our bodies one with Hers, one earth, mud, one ma... [View Full Comment]
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Roz Bound Dec 16, 2024
I entered this as a poem - sorry it doesn’t show that way.
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Thea NIetfeld Dec 16, 2024
Ahh! This is so helpful!