Ignore No Vision (after Maya Angelou)
Jan, 25 2012 | circle of loveliness | admin | No comments
PROMPT: Using two lines of a poem written by Maya Angelou to Oprah Winfrey for her 50th birthday (Ignore no vision… and increase your spirit), each writer was to create two lines of inspiration and encouragement to create a group poem. We picked numbers randomly to decide the order and here is the final poem:
Ignore No Vision – by Sabrina, Catherine, Carol, Alice, Vanessa, Maryaleen and Nathalie
Ignore no vision which comes to enlarge your range And increase your spiritFearlessly, be your own champion And tend fiercely to your sweet and tender dream shoots
Allow softness to grow your heart open Accept tininess, accept flaw as the beginnings of power
Open one, two eyes and watch as the screen of possibility etches mirrors of brilliance on pupil. Blink and let curtains of blue and yellow wash over soul window and rest into heart.
Ignore no opportunity to love and do right by you – For that paves the way to truth, compassion and the creative heart.
Let the stories come. See, hear, feel, and tell them. They keep us alive and connected. Life is only that: stories, awakening us to the fullness of the human spirit. You want to see? Then take off the blinkers. Close your eyes and let the pictures come. They’re big enough to fill a universe with hope, with joy and with love.
Look from front, from back, from above, from below Build the textures, reveal the details
Find beginnings in endings for new stories and characters Lift up, eyes open, eyes up, climb
Soar, seek, pass over, move on, leave behind
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