Visit One Single Impression for a plethora of poems about the November 30 prompt: welcoming
Come, friend.
Sit by the fire.
Let's share some port, a cigar and some rich dark chocolate.
The world has grown cold.
Let the wood and the flames talk to us about
usefulness and beneficence and connection.
Let the cold stars speak of spaciousness and forgiveness.
Let's welcome each other's pain, delight, struggle and deception
'til we meld into some form of love for each other that looks a lot
like joy.
Rest your weary heart
in the crucible of
laughter and coyote yips
conjured up by souls
also longing for connection.
If we break out the drums, all the better.
If we dance the snow down, all the delight.
Welcome, friend.
There's always a place for you at our hearth.
One Single Impression is a community of poets writing and sharing haiku and other poetic forms. Each week a prompt is offered to our muses to see what they cook up! Please visit the site for excellent poems on each prompt. Better yet, come play with us!
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
One of my favorite hats, among several is: initiated firekeeper in the Sacred Fire Community. Hosting a monthly community fire circle, I'm being taught that the simple act of sitting around a fire with the intent of holding open-hearted space makes for some soulful community!
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.