Lifted

Wisdom and grace comes through many different mediums; but it is especially heartening when it comes though our closest friends. I have been writing poetry (and not blogging!) for a good few months now and I feel it is time to return to posting those poems for people to read, enjoy or simply consider. Things have shifted within me and those subtle transformations have revealed new depths and perspectives in my life. Hard won though they may be; a good friend once said that 'wisdom usually comes from a place of suffering.'

I include one of my favourite poems that my brother (Richard Harrison) has written. His blog is www.aboxofpoems.wordpress.com

Once upon a time everything stopped, the ground opened up, 
the lights dimmed, sound muted and I was pushed down into the abyss,
I guess this was death. Once upon a time the sky opened up, light shone 
upon my face, sounds danced around my mind, I guess I was born, once
upon a time nothing happened until a bird landed on my shoulder
and whispered he had seen me staring at a hole that did not exist
and a sky that couldn't be seen 

RH

Lifted

Lift up!
Raise your perceptions;
Step into the shoes of new beliefs,
tangible - like falling vine.
Feel the ethereal gossamer of transformation;
Can you see the new you in the mirror?
Such subtleties bring the ripple of gifts;
That encircle out of your ocean,
Into the familiar and foreign seas around you.

LB