This is so meaningful and a Poem he wrote during a time when he felt so little Faith.


I want to write about faith
about the way the moon rises
over cold snow, night after night

faithful even as it fades from fullness
slowly becoming that last curving and impossible
sliver of light before the final darkness
but I have no faith myself
I refuse to give it the smallest entry

Let this then, my small poem,
like the new moon, slender and barley open,
be the first prayer that opens me to faith.
Taken from the Book "Fish" By Stephen C. Lundin,
Harry Paul, and John Christensen

Didn't he write this during his time in the Galapagos Islands when he was acutely attuned to the live and death cycles?
May have it confused with another one...
And yes, it is a beautiful one as most of his are.
He is a favorite poet...

i am not sure if thats when he wrote the poem. i found a book at the Library with new and selected poems from 1984 to 2007. I also like his poem "Self Portiat".Thanks, vll

Kathleen have you read the poem from Whyte about the Harp. it just took me bak to your harp and the visual of its positon andyour playng. I was reading it late last night. I usually spent 30 minutes ech night with his poetry and Oh! how what adventuring into self. Thanks, VLL

Kathleen
I got a sense that The Faith Poem might have also arisen from the death of his Mom. I was reading a couple of those poems in the past few nights And Oh, what a Gift for me. Thanks, VLL

Vonda,

I just found this link on David Whyte's website where you can LISTEN to him deliver the poem "Faith"

http://www.davidwhyte.com/english_faith.html

Just click on the "Listen" link ---

Wondrous!

Beautiful Tom, Thank you
Good to see you online.

Thank you Vonda, for bringing the poem about the Harp to my awareness, I am enjoying it again and again today.

Thank You Tom for the link and I will look forward to that enjoyment onmy day off Monday. VL

Kathleen, thanks and when I read that Harp Poem for the first time I felt so in-touch with you and your Harp. It felt like you were there play-ng in Spirit. VL

Insight: Showing the infaltile aspects actively at work.
The other morning when we were discussing the Harp Poem. I was aware of how I wanted to read it to you and found myself in all kinds of mind thoughts of Bah! Bah! Bah!. Then I noticed I hope you would ask me to read it. Finally I made myself ask if you would like to hear it, and I did read it. I let go of the busy thoughts of/if it was good enought! I have noticed when I am putting my life force into such thoughts since that time of whatever is happening in the moment. Thanks,VL

I am glad you put your life force into reading the poem and allowing me to experience it through your voice. Good way to distinguish where you want to put that life force.

Ladies:
I would recommend "Faith" By David Whyte when finding Self in collaspe. Most effective Elixir for awareness. VLL

I would agree with Vonda
And it works for the Gentlemen also.

I sense that Faith is a fundamental eternal pattern manifesting through what we call Soul – and that to experience and embody faith is to realize the Divine.

Yes – a most effective elixir, Vonda!

The House of Belonging by David Whyte
as recited by Tom at my Heart Initation
on Februrary 26, 2008. And what a Treasure!

I awoke
this morning
in the gold light
turning this way
and that

thinking for
a moment
it was one
day
like any other.

But
the veil had gone
from my
darkened heart
and
I thought

it must have been the quiet
candlelight
that filled my room,

it must have been
the first easy rhythm
with which I breathed
myself to sleep,

it must have been
the prayer I said
speaking to the otherness
of the night.

And
I thought
this is a good day
you could
meet your love,

this is the black day
someone close
to you could die.

This is the day
you realize
how easily the thread
is broken
between this world
and the next

and I found myself
sitting up
in the quiet pathway
of light,

the tawney
close grained cedar
burning round
me like fire
and the angeld of this housely
heaven ascending
through the first
roof of light
the sun has made.

This is the bright home
in which I live,
this is where
I ask
my friends
to come,
this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love.

This is the temple
of my adult aloneness
and I belong
to that aloneness
as I belong to my life.

There is no house
like the house of belonging

-And I say Amen Brother to such
profound poetic truth!

Vonda,

There is no greater pleasure for me than to witness another literally aglow after their initiation, as you were that evening.

I would wish that whenever you feel imbued by that Radiance of Love, you know you have found yourself in the House of Belonging, again.

It’s re-experienced again and again, whenever you choose, through the practice of Heart Centered meditation.

“The face you show the Divine, is the Face the Divine shows you.”



Namaste

I'm in Deep Gratitude. Thanks, VLL