i am spirit

i am
universe

spirit

a thoroughbred on fire

Vesuvius exploding
millenniums
of age old stories
told by firelight

dancing flames of mouths of ancestors
ring in my
external auditory meatus
creating intense magnetic fields
between both palms
placed upon ears

a circuit to free my thinking brain
from onslaught of
data,
technology
information
fear
love
death
hate
and all that exists

in divine ugliness and beauty

this universe encompasses
all that is, was, will be
and I, human, here and now

am spirit

i am spirit, i say
and stand and scream
opening my lungs to this most holy sky
and it blazed like photogenic supernovas
across my inner eyelids
closed, sleeping, awake
my still small hands shake
beneath starry skies in eve

for i am spirit
in this shell
on this Earth,
existing in a Universe

as human.


© Susan Marie

Spontaneous Conversation: Soul Family, Universal Truths, Mystical Perspectives

This is so divine and precious. 

Also, on my radio show on Think Twice Radio 

This is NOT the Apple 

and below. 

 

Myself [Sue Marie, [This is Not the Apple] and Joel Lesses [Unraveling Religion] both radio producers at ThinkTwiceRadio, discuss various perspectives in spontaneous conversation at Our Lady of Victory Basilica & National Shrine.

The conversation focuses on soul family, spirit bonds, mystical perspectives, universal truths, the soul with two faces, rebirth, archetypes, psychology, medicine, holistic arts, ego vs self, trusting in the process, and poetry. 


The intro track © Deva Premal and Miten is from the CD "The Essence", and the track is "Gayatri Mantra" [the world’s oldest mantra, known for purification and healing.] The bells at the end are going off seven times at the national shrine. 


The question remains: Without Soul Family, What Is Life? 

Journey To Nepal

                 Published on KingSpring.Org 

My dear brother Joel is on a journey to Nepal, please help him realize his dream! 

PLEASE DONATE ANYTHING YOU ARE ABLE HERE--> http://www.gofundme.com/mgtsno

 

 Joel has an opportunity to volunteer in Nepal on a program dedicated to human rights, education, healthcare and agriculture in impoverished rural and urban settings. He most deeply desires to serve these communities and learn from beautiful Nepali people in a once in a life time exchange of mutual benefit and cross cultural understanding.


Joel will be volunteering with and for --> http://www.tevelbtzedek.org - an organization that focuses on impoverished communities in Nepal, Haiti and Burundi, to enhance and advance the livelihood, capacity, and well-being of their members.

He is a poet, listener, counselor and a person who values exploration and evolution above all things and thanks everyone deeply for your consideration of his efforts.

Joel is a dear soul, brother, and friend I have been blessed to know personally for years. I support him wholeheartedly on his journey and dream. Nepal is an important place for me and I wish him wellness, peace, inspiration, enlightenment and education.  I am so proud of him and will do whatever is in my power to get him there to assist in the education of human rights and empowerment for those who live differently than most of us. 

Please do your part, if able, and give, share, give, share! 

I thank you from the depths of my own heart. 

Peace, 

Sue

This is Joel. 

 https://www.facebook.com/joel.lesses

Angels on your shoulders.

soulscreaming

Please, never stop creating poetry, he said to me.

And I replied:

for all eternity
i shall attempt to describe
in words
how our kiss
hides
between the thin line
where the sunset burrows
beside the sea

awaiting to rise
yet again
in love for the dawn
when she drags her belly
pregnant and full
across the purpling morningtide

a kaleidoscope of colors
yet to be seen
by the human eye
colors that exist
within your spirit
the iris
the corners of your smile

this is our kiss
eternal scripture

mere words
can never come close
to that divinity

yet i shall try
to write about that thin line
where the sunset burrows

beside the sea

 Words & Photo ©  Susan Marie

A Peaceful Pakistan, Pakistan For All [Children's Art Submissions]

Pakistan for All is proud to present a visual arts campaign for peace led by children.

We are asking children to show us the light and the way to 

'A Peaceful Pakistan, A Pakistan for All'

Please encourage your children to participate.

For details please contact ilmana_fasih@hotmail.com

i am gasoline

Published on Poems and Poetry 

reassemble
my

thought

with visions and goals
dreams and ideals

a sustainable life

something more
than this
current
societal
existence

rejuvenate
my
body
arms
splayed

outstretched

before you

your feast

my mouth

your escape

my holy altar

your salvation

regenerate
my

blood

so that it
brings me

sweet breath

open your mouth wide,
dear

allow it to flow
into your own

be a shining white beacon 
of hope

be all of this and more
for me, you, us

this most divine union
of souls
is meant
to change

everything 

let us rejoice
and bring them all

back home

to the land

the silt

the rich green grass

emerald
the climbing vines
and meadows

the cool deep streams
and the air we breathe

oh, so pure

the ether

let us bring it all
together

again

let us set fire to the sky

awaken oceans
raging, angry

let us call thunder

alerting the Earth

to shiver and quake

like my thighs

alabaster

like your deep rich eyes

boring down upon me now
like the volcanic rumbling
of every tired human voice

let us torch ourselves

this world must be reborn

i am gasoline

and you are my match

let us awaken the angels

so their choirs are heard

in all worlds

divine

like when we first met
a hazy rendition
of tidal waves
and dolphins dancing

ecstatic


© Susan Marie 
Artwork © Mark Reginald 

Helping The Community: Buffalo, New York

On March 4, 2015 Trinity Church on Delaware will be holding a silent/live auction 5:30pm to 8pm at the church. Susan Hughes and Joe Silvestri are co-chairs. 

Joe asked me to donate one book of my poetry, of course I will.

Trinity relies on the fundraisers for their out reach programs such as:

• Homespace 
• Compass House 
• City Mission 
• Friends of the Night People 
• MAP, Urban Agricultural Program 

I am reaching out to all of you to see if you may be interested in helping too! I am sure anything that can be live auctioned is fine.

If you have any questions, contact: 

• Colleen Fahey, Program Director 716-852 8314 *18  
• Joe Silvestri 716-235-7973

Thank you, if you can help and if not, that is okay too!

Peace.

And The Gods Smiled

Published on "For Much Deliberation"

imagine another human soul
crawling beneath your skin
gently guiding
each other
to perfect
divine
convergence
realization
culmination

destiny

black and white
does not exist
in this realm
manifested,
only kaleidoscopes of spectrums,
inconceivable

imagine all defenses dropped
like a first rain
descending upon
crowns of daffodils and daises
and all the dirt and dust
of the alternate reality,
cleansed

like diving face first
into oceans
of driftwood

only to float
upon stillwater

and rest
wasted and serene

ashore

oh,
so irresistibly

holy


© Susan Marie

MLK: Voice For The Voiceless

I will always follow the philosophy of this man, one who stood for all of us and had a gift of bringing ALL people together with a rational mind, heart and spirit in the name of peace. 

Dr. King was a man racked with doubt, not without flaws, a man who questioned why he had been chosen for such a task - leading people to freedom, healing the wounds of a nation.  

And yet he led a nation. 

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through action he gave courage to the faint of heart. Through vision, determination, and faith in the power of love, he endured arrest, the loneliness of a prison cell, constant threats to his life, until he finally inspired a nation to transform itself.

Video: MLK: 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist.

King headed the SCLC and was a forerunner in ending segregation of African-American citizens in the South.  The creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are in direct relation to the perseverance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated in 1968. 

 

 

Tuesdays With Morrie [The Empathy Library]

Published in The Empathy Library Here

Published in 1997, written by Mitch Albom, with the leadership and guidance of his college professor, Morrie Schwartz, this under 200 page volume is full of simple answers to existential questions regarding the importance of human existence.  

In 1979, Mitch graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. During his time at Brandeis, he managed to cross the path of not only a Doctor of Sociology, a prominent college professor and a published author, but a friend, a guide and a man that Mitch lovingly referred to as “Coach.”

Nearing 16 years later, after watching a Nightline report by Ted Koppel, Mitch discovered that his longtime guide, Morrie, was suffering from ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Mitch had spent his life working in media, specifically as an acclaimed sports columnist. Mitch has been voted America’s #1 Sports Columnist ten times by The Associated Press Sports Editors.

With a successful yet spiritually unrewarding career, Mitch set out to reunite with his longtime friend and “Coach.” 

Unbeknownst to Mitch, this visit was to be his last thesis. 

He met every Tuesday with Morrie, watching his disease progress, tape recording their basic conversations about life.

This “thesis” eventually became a memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie.

This volume touched me deeply. The ideals and conversations documented by Mitch exhibit the inherent basic needs that must be met for happiness for spirits existing in a human shell. 

Mitch’s writing is not complex, it is precise and on the mark, exhibiting exactly what he meant to portray: a conversation with a man he admired facing life and death, simultaneous. 

Books such as Tuesdays with Morrie prove that the human condition is a fleeting one and that every moment must be savored, admired, in the here and now, not later.

I learned that everything I strive to complete really does not matter at this precise moment. What truly matters is that my limbs work, I am able to think, speak and write, that I practice compassion and kindness to the best of my ability and must continue to do so.

Most importantly, that I am able to love and forgive myself and others for simply being human.  

In the words of Morrie himself:

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.”

Everyone must read this book. It is one full of aphorisms of wisdom. It is a volume filled with unconditional love.