Journey of the Heart

  All life is full of cycles of starts and stops, creation and destruction… I have just found out that, in all probability, my working life has come to an end due to ill health. This poem flowed from that realization. It is about endings, beginnings, and trust… Photograph by Mariesol Fumy Endings and Beginnings                            Life throws curve balls at times Standing things on their heads Unforeseen And at first unwanted Or so it would seem. Doors close slamming in your face Or are they really opening Onto new life and new beginnings Trust is the issue I say I do but do I Trust in the divine Trust in the universe Trust that the higher ones Care for me I am ready to be stood on my head. Photography by Mariesol Fumy~ Sarah Courtney Dean : I am a poet and my poetry...

Close to Lisa is one of my earliest poems…  I wrote it eleven years ago, when our daughter Lisa was pregnant with our first grandson.  I was so full of joy and wonder, I intuitively stretched out my heart and mind, striving to find the right words.   Now I believe I was stretching towards a vast, spiritual power, which reached back to me and, indeed, reaches to all of us.  I have been stretching ever since! ~Photography by Michael Kornos~ Close to Lisa Seated close to me, my daughter Lisa is lost in thought. Small, sweet smiles  play along the curve of her delicate lips. She rubs her round belly with soothing, circular motion; her message is repeated again and again – I am here, I love you. Once my baby girl, now a kind wise woman, she carries forward Life’s miraculous cycle, just as I did so many years ago. Life creating life, the miracle is repeated again and again, each birth unique and astou...