Why This Poem?

My co-author, Char Sundust, performed a lovely wedding last week.  Each of the 170 attendees received a little beautiful scroll tied with a ribbon.  And Char says, “I took one and opened it.  Inside was your wonderful Love Poem For Mature Hearts.  My heart was so moved...”

Love Poem for Mature Hearts                                                           

Love is foolish.

Certain loss waits for you.

So what!?

 Throw yourself away, 

And love.

Why would someone choose this poem?  Would you? 

Why would I write this for a couple in their 50s getting married?  How is this a blessing?

Can you perceive why I designated “for mature hearts” in the title?

Suzanne and I have been married 40+ years now.  With each passing year, it is more certain that one of us will die and the other will experience “certain loss” and pain.

How much suffering we experience will depend on how much we can throw ourselves away and continue to love in the face of unimaginably huge loss.

Facing this “certain loss” currently drives my spiritual practices.  I continue to open and soften my heart daily.

Writing poetry helps you to face your life with a wide open heart.  Our book God, Death, and Poetry shares poems from our hearts and shows you how you can use poetry to heal and love.

Don’t miss the short video conversation with Char and me.

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Blessings,

William

P.S. Hey, get the book.  You’ll be happy.

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Announcing God, Death, and Poetry

"There is a wisdom in the words that poets speak – the truth. This book teaches us how to access that truth. William and Char take us to a place through their own truth telling to explore that mystery ourselves.

"They show us how to access a place where we are in contact with something greater within ourselves. We are always whole, and we are always on a journey toward greater wholeness.

"This book is a journey, poet or not… a gift to the soul for that journey and a place to gather courage to nurture our gifts into a state of aliveness."

Char Sundust, a long time friend and shaman, and I have published a book -- God, Death, and Poetry: A Magically Sacred Way to Make Your Life Rich, Deep, and Whole

The quote above is from the back cover. It says it all, well, not all. Watch the video.

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Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. You will like the story about the eagle who came to bless.

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Obviously, Not True…

A reader wrote this about my Laser Focused report Amazingly Content. http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp


Since this Ho’oponopono thing is so obviously not true,I'm going to have to take advantage of your guarantee.If it is true, then prove it by using it yourself to change my mind about asking for this refund. See, it ain't true!

Isn’t that sweet? I smiled and cheerfully refunded his money. I didn’t try to change his mind. Amazingly enough, I am content.

But the truth is, I understand what he’s saying. Ho’oponopono, the method in the report, is obviously untrue. How could it be otherwise? When I read Dr. Len’s miraculous story, I thought, “Hmmm.”

I trusted Joe Vitale who told me about it. You can read his famous email in the report.

Part of Joe’s story is that he didn’t believe it either. He researched it at length. He had telephone conversations with Dr. Len. Eventually, they met. Still it took Joe a long time to get it.

Even though I trust Joe, I researched it, too. I think I read everything that Joe wrote about it, and yet I was still skeptical. Because I don’t understand it, I am still skeptical. I do note that it works. I don’t let my skepticism get in the way of receiving the benefits of being in love with everyone and everything.


I Test Everything

Did you know I graduated in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard? I like to test stuff.

You may know that before I tell you to try anything, I have tested it first in my own life. Then I refine the tests in the laboratory of my friends, family, and patients. If it passes those tests, I tell you. It passed all those tests and I wrote Amazingly Content for you. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)


Now, I travel around being in love with everything and everyone. And I feel Amazingly Content. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)

And don’t let Suzanne Burroughs know that it’s not true, it’s working too well for her. See below for her report.

Obviously, not true?

Love of the Ordinary

Remember the child who receives a fancy toy for Christmas by his doting parents. Watch as the child opens the present, see the looks of adoration on the faces of the parents, then note the surprise that moves across their faces that changes in the next moment to disappointment, finally, as the light dawns, to delight.

What are they seeing? They’re watching their first born open the present, look at it briefly, discard it, and, then happily play with the box and wrappings for hours.

As I write this, I’m in Kona, on the Big Island, Hawaii. This is everybody’s paradise. I have thrown out the present and am endlessly enjoying the wrapper.

What draws me? I pass on the fancy catamaran trip to the best snorkel sit on the island. I pass on the night dive with the manta rays. This dive was life changing for some in my family. I pass on the parasail lifting high over Kailua Bay, which Kevin thought was the best event of the trip.

I pass because the ordinary steals my heart. Instead of stopping and smelling the roses, I stop and smell the plumaria.

The unfamiliar and ubiquitous bird songs of the mynas and the zebra doves enchant me.

The Saffron Finch that joins my dawn Taiji becomes a loved companion.

I listen to the ever-changing sounds of the surf 30 feet (10 m) outside my window. I “fly” over coral reefs, listening to the sound of my breathing as I snorkel in a rocky cove, 100m south of here.

My Zen teacher, Genjo, might say, “Zen is the celebration of the ordinary.” At any rate, I say so.

Now, what ordinary miracles do I see at home? Home too is paradise if I would but look. This trip I was bowled over by how beautiful Seattle is. Everywhere I look, I see the Divine.

What is sacred and magic about the ordinary in your life? Find it. I promise you its there.

Exercise: Go outside for 10 minutes, look with your artist’s eye, and find three things that knock your socks off. That make you say, “Oh, wow!”

Example: As I was driving home, I saw a photographer surrounded by trees with the astonishing fall colors, the beauty of the lake behind him, as he took a photo from one foot away (15cm) of a pay telephone. I almost pulled over to so I could see what he was seeing. Get it?


If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. – George Eliot

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. – Our old friend, Henry David Thoreau

Blessings,

William

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