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世界渴望更多描繪日常生活的詩人

環顧四周,我的心在那些沉默沉重得令人窒息的地方破碎。它縈繞在陌生人之間不再相見的沉默中,縈繞在那些曾經因連結而繁榮,如今卻支離破碎的社群中。我們停止搭建的橋樑,我們為了效率而放棄的同理心,這些缺失讓我們每個人都感到沉重。我從孩子們黯淡的眼神中看到了這一點,他們曾經明亮的夢想如今卻要面對一個用數字和任務衡量價值的世界,他們早已忘記了最初教會他們好奇的魔法。



即使在最擁擠的人群中,孤獨的痛楚依然揮之不去;在無情的節奏中,人與人之間的連結逐漸消逝,這種失衡令人窒息。冷酷高效的體制碾碎了生命脆弱的美麗,將複雜的生命簡化為毫無生氣的交易。有時,我會想,我們是否已經忘記瞭如何傾聽──傾聽彼此,傾聽大地,傾聽樹木和風,它們曾經輕聲訴說著我們早已銘記於心的真理。

然而,希望如潮水般悄悄升起,卻又執著不息。它體現在最簡單的舉動中——與陌生人分享一個微笑,伸出一隻善意的手。它存在於那些駐足聆聽、不僅傾聽內在聲音,也傾聽他人無聲需求的人們的勇氣之中。海洋不知疲倦地向海岸湧來,提醒我:堅持本身就是一種詩意,它承諾改變永遠皆有可能。我看到希望播撒在不適合生長的土壤中的種子,看到希望化絕望為神聖的奉獻之舉。它存在於人類精神的韌性之中,這種韌性一次又一次地升起,敢於相信一個更美好的世界。最重要的是,我看到希望存在於人們日益增長的認知之中:愛——溫柔、堅定、毫不妥協的力量——或許終將改變我們身後留下的製度和故事。

對我而言,通往更深層真理的道路並非某個瞬間的頓悟,而是一種輕柔而反覆的推動。它像一種編織在我生命肌理中的模式——一種世界節奏略微錯亂的感覺,彷彿存在交響曲中缺少了一個音符。這些時刻往往不期而至,在言語間的靜默中,在對話結束後久久縈繞心頭的疑問裡。我記得自己曾站在浩瀚的夜空下,驚嘆的不是繁星,而是環繞它們的寂靜。那寂靜彷彿充滿生命力,邀請我去問那些我尚不知如何表達的問題。

我們為什麼會在這裡?

真正活著的意義是什麼?

我們如何將神聖融入日常生活?

開啟這扇門的並非醍醐灌頂的頓悟,而是緩緩展開的過程。世界的真理並非完整地呈現在我面前,而是以碎片的形式──透過經歷、人際交往,以及某種更宏大力量的靜謐牽引──逐漸顯現。這種對意義的追尋並非為了尋找答案,而是為了學習與問題共處,讓它們如同陰雲密佈的夜晚中的星辰般指引我。

我如今最關心的問題是:我如何透過自身的存在去服務他人?這並非關乎驚天動地的舉動或非凡的壯舉,而是關乎靜默存在的力量。我逐漸領悟到,服務不僅在於我們做了什麼,更在於我們如何存在於這個世界。它體現在我們如何問候陌生人,如何傾聽他人的故事,以及如何將感恩融入平凡的日常。

身為一個內心充滿詩意的人,我常常思考,我的文字,我的視角,能否融入日常生活的點滴。如果詩歌不僅存在於詩句之中,也存在於對話、舉止,以及最細微的互動之中,那會怎麼樣?我能否透過我的存在,為平凡的生活增添一絲奇妙,點燃一絲火花,讓生命更顯鮮活?

因此,我把這個問題當作一盞明燈,照亮我的道路:我如何才能將生命的詩意帶入平凡之中,不是為了逃避它,而是為了賦予它活力?我如何能不試圖改變世界,而是透過自身的存在,讓世界感受到一絲完整,從而去服務世界?

服務就是融入世界。
就目前而言,
不是帶著答案,
但要保持開放的態度
這會促使其他人心軟,
相信靜謐的交響樂
共同生活。

這是作品——
讓你的存在激起細小的漣漪
感受他們世界的浩瀚,
結果發現這就夠了。

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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!