Emotions and Music

What is music? Is it the window into the soul of those sharing love? Does it make you want to rise up and say the things you know you need to voice? Do the notes lift your imagination to a beautiful place where only you know the path to travel?

Do the melodies make you want to write down just the perfect words so that the whole world can feel this way? The notes seem to swirl through my memories as they paint me a lovely picture of life lived and life to come. Of stories worth telling and of love worth fighting for.

The feelings that well up inside seem to never fully be expressed in a way that does them justice; like they are forever caged inside of those that feel them. Maybe one day we will learn how to free them and share them with the other poetic hearts out there. Now, I am content to know that there might be others who share my love of love.

Maybe they too are waiting for those such as I who understand the wonders of love and the poetry hardship.

Earth Speaks

When I look out my window, I see that the earth speaks. The branches of the trees gently let their arms fly out beside them in waves of greeting. I see the dust wake up as the wind carries it through that one ray of sunlight. The clouds lightly decorate the powder blue canvas sky. The wind rustles my hair; the earth speaks.

The gray sky sends messages to the earth as the snow collects. I see things being swallowed by the white of the snow as it covers our tracks. The ice slows me down as I try to hurry through my day; the earth speaks.

Yoga and the Mind

Yoga and the Mind

My thoughts are like the practice of Yoga
Free and relaxed; calm and at peace
The lines of my body create intricate patterns just like my mind with new concepts
Both weave in and out of each other; testing their limits
My feet stretch to their farthest point and then retract in protest
My thoughts race
Every thought is strained and stretched
They feel tight and unfamiliar to me; just like my muscles as they lengthen and work
The tension is released and my mind roams free for one moment
Just like my body as it takes part in relaxation of the core
My legs and arms reach out to achieve new mobility
Like my mind as it wraps itself around new ideas
My body seeks challenge and bends to new poses
My thoughts copy
Practice of Yoga makes me more comfortable
Just as continual mental debate answers questions
Both seek, both challenge, both question