Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your hear ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Take Time to Tune Your Heart
“The heart is a / Ten thousand-stringed instrument / That can only be tuned with / Love.” ~ Hafiz
Touch Me ~ A Poem by Stanley Kunitz
Touch Me
Stanley Kunitz
Summer is late, my heart.
Words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love
and torn almost in two
scatter like leaves this night
of whistling wind and rain.
It is my heart that’s late,
it is my song that’s flown.
Outdoors all afternoon
under a gunmetal sky
staking my garden down,
I kneeled to the crickets trilling
underfoot as if about
to burst from their crusty shells;
and like a child again
marveled to hear so clear
and brave a music pour
from such a small machine.
What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
One season only,
and it’s done.
So let the battered old willow
thrash against the windowpanes
and the house timbers creak.
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.
Life & Love Always Win
Every time I see a dandelion growing through a crack in the sidewalk, or see baby birds take their first flight, or feel a baby grasp my finger I know life wins. I know love wins. I know when I am in the presence of someone who knows how to love and how to enjoy the wonders of life. It is etched on their faces, it is in the sparkle of their eyes, and it is in the message their heart sends to all who come by. The Sufi mystic Hafiz wrote, “The heart is a / The thousand-stringed instrument / That can only be tuned with / Love.” When our heart is tuned with love, we know that life is love and love is life. The two are intertwined and inseparable. Here’s hoping love is fine tuning your heart and all the blessing life can offer come your way.
Listen to Your Heart
“What does your heart tell you? ” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Sonnett LXXIII Maybe You’ll Remember ~ A Poem by Pablo Neruda
Sonnett LXXIII Maybe You’ll Remember
Pablo Neruda
Maybe you’ll remember that razor-faced man
who slipped out from the dark like a blade
and – before we realized – knew what was there:
he saw the smoke and concluded fire.
The pallid woman with black hair
rose like a fish from the abyss,
and the two of them built up a contraption,
armed to the teeth, against love.
Man and woman, they felled mountains and gardens,
then went down to the river, they scaled the walls,
they hoisted their atrocious artillery up the hill.
Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way.
The Heart Has Its Own Set of Eyes
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Perfect to Start the Day
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
Between us Now ~ A Poem by Thomas Hardy
Between Us Now
Thomas Hardy
Between us now and here—
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life’s flushest feather—
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes dimming fast,
Let there be truth at last,
Even if despair.
So thoroughly and long
Have you now known me,
So real in faith and strong
Have I now shown me,
That nothing needs disguise
Further in any wise,
Or asks or justifies
A guarded tongue.
Face unto face, then, say,
Eyes my own meeting,
Is your heart far away,
Or with mine beating?
When false things are brought low,
And swift things have grown slow,
Feigning like froth shall go,
Faith be for aye.
Today’s Quote: It’s All About Love
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~ Oscar Wilde
