Start Where You Are
Symphony of a Soul Through Words
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Decide I have been told To select my thoughts As I select my shoes To decide and choose The words I have to use Thoughts that come to mind Be the master and in control Memory will no longer be memory I will choose it to be part of me Should I leave or should I keep I will have no duality Choosing a path to the mind Will no longer hold me back One With All This piece of planet that we occupy, body is named Requirement is to accumulate, consume and expand Needing to feel, experience and attending to grow Existence belongs and is reference to body we know Emotions we feel are housed in memory and mind Intrinsic part we play, ultimately person we are not The body would not last long, it is a fantasy of mind Universe we live in, interchangeable planet we are Miracle we are, to be aware of little quiet things A degree of alertness, look or listen to present still Though impact of each very different from the other Source of growth is one and remains unknown Road to Life The road to life has been paved Ancestors, poets, groundkeepers We paved, prepared, follow it along Our blood, our tears Bones we left behind Experience life, do not hang on Life exists, situations can’t carry on If you walk the path With believes in your mind You are paving a road That will never last long Confabulate Some time ago when I believed That I am my mind and not me Was lost in thought, who I liked to be I wrote, mapped the life ahead of me Opposed to love, was game of mind Forgot what was real and unreal to me Failure, disappointments came to be Heartbreak was crafted only by me Confabulates is it my mind or me Yesterday and today I lit a fire to the bridge that connected me to yesterday What lived yesterday is gone and has an end today Paradise I lost, only imagined in memories of yesterday All that I have learned, memory can't repeat it today The garment of obligation that I had wore yesterday It is the mark of my humility that I wear it today My suffering is for what could have been yesterday In sixty years of struggle, I see “in now” only today When my body is no longer as young as yesterday My life is on the water, yet I breathe the air today Quest for freedom, I suffered unnecessary yesterday Until I realized it was necessary to carry me to today invitation of possibility to find greater self in yesterday Willingness to look deep within by finding me today Quiet Music Tranquility of life is sleeping with open sky It is when the music plays and tree sways When the garden snake tangos gracefully with earth Rejoice knowing the hidden jewel inside your heart The greatest teacher penetrates inside out And the lessons we learn are in the trembling Wrinkling faces of the mirrors passing by Listen to the music from the world we live in You may even hear mountain sing, standing tall United we are, by music, laughter and joy of being Give thanks to beloved, and sun for the warmth of ray Where the willow tree sings silently all day Astonishment is in silence that leaves blind in ecstasy For they see what does not exist for you and me Sea of Sorrow It would be wiser to know the sorrow I draw from my pain, lessons follow Lonely in joy as in pain and sorrow This mind of mine Weapon, stone, poison I know Somewhere deep down very quietly Ripple has begone and it is roaring at me My unpredictable mind will feed me to earth I need to get a good grip on my mind or me Where I am headed has to be the sea Love and ego Feeling remorse, I asked to be thrown All the way to the beginning unknown Self-reproach, let this be the end of me The body I live in can not be all of me Memory of my love, though very short But life of my ego is immensely purport I died today metaphorically, and Found out it was not the end of me Was it the love I kept so selfishly Or latching on to ego and memory? It was He that welcomed, with no word Lips revealed forgiveness to go forward In His arms cradle of love I find Remembering with love we are bind Fragrance of Life Everlasting life Is not in my body I know Love the body I have It is only a borrow If my life is full of love And not of sorrow I have lived with the flowers And I know Love is the fragrance That will always follow Memories Eternal flame of your heart In to your life it crept Burned through memories And accumulated things You are always in your heart And are never apart If you follow the emotion And trace it underside Field of energy That come up with your thought Will lead you to the source Of who is inside Living through memory You’ll miss the life once had You will be left behind Only a life of dream to go back Immortality I saw a glimpse of immortality Mothers, Fathers who lived before Sons, daughters that will live after I saw glimpse of immortality The glue that combines us all Collectively we are humanity
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About the Book
This is about the spiritual observation in achieving harmony with all things in the journey to life.
About the Author
Lulu is a poet and artist who utilizes writing and drawing to communicate the profound. She was born to an Armenian couple and moved to New York as a teenager. Throughout her high school years, her work was published in a weekly newspaper. Since then, it has been published in various anthology books and displayed in libraries and art galleries. Through self inquiry she learned she must find a path back to self, for that’s where love resides. Lulu uses poetry as an invitation to discover the magnificence and the truth of who we are. For she believes we all share one very distinct quality called love.