For a Dancer ( by Jackson Browne)
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Tag: spirit
Broken
Broken
Too fragile
for animation,
sentience,
breathing.
Inside walls
of bones
everything shatters,
infinitely.
A discovery of old roots
traps my present tense heart
which weighs a burden of foul words.
It has known too much-
it breaks at night
and smiles brashly
to the daylight
not showing its broken curves.
And that scale, sinking
wants to close
all entries and doors.
Review by Anita Neilson
Letters to My Oldest Friend
by Janavi Held (Goodreads Author)
Anita Neilson‘s review
Nov 04, 2017
This is simply glorious. The words flow gently across the page in a waterfall of despair and hope, grief and faith, pain and joy. Together with beautifully crafted photographs of the natural world, it is a wonderful, precious undertaking. The poems will resonate strongly with anyone afflicted by a chronic illness or spiritual malaise. Quite breathtakingly haunting in their longing for God. The pull between enjoying the delights of this Earth and the soul crying for greater meaning is much in evidence. For example, in the poem “Eternity”, the poet says, “in this world of change I am longing for You yet I am drawn again and again to the shiny fortunes of this shallow world.” This reduced me to tears, so near was it to my experience of life. These are the sweetest, most poetic, most haunting of verses, to be savoured again and again. Buy a copy and keep it close to you, so that each time you feel sorry for yourself, or angry at someone (even God), open it and read a verse or two. Your spirits will be lifted!
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Watch the book trailer:
I wish I had Wings
I wish I had wings
I’d leave this prison
of gravity behind
and go up and up
grazing the tops of
dazzling green trees
swaying in the wind
I’d soar through
the mists of bright clouds
breathing in freedom
and moist particles
of fog and rain
I’d turn my face
to the sun
warm
warming
my insides
breaking the prison
of flesh and bone
wide open
I’d bathe in sweet
moon rays
and drink
the dust of stars
filling my heart
with ancient light
I’d look down
at the swarming
earth, but I’d never
look back.
Janavi Held © 2017
Time Unhinged
Video with spoken poetry below
Time Unhinged
Dreamt of exterminated images,
and forgotten doubts,
of unhinged time
with the hollow
of silent bones
thundering
in the wake of restless flowers.
Blinded by
a vigilant morning
I enter the mists of loneliness
seeking laughter and daydreams
(to counter the emptiness)
too long for counting
these days
press down
on my chest
cementing the architecture
of my sad inheritance.
I establish hope
burying her under
the obliging tree
in my back yard.
Flooding
Flooding
Within the
shadowy waters
of illusion
I built thick
castle walls
sunken deep
in those hazy waters
my heart froze
and slept for eons.
Awakened from this
deep sleep of ignorance
by a flood of
Your liberating
monsoon rain
You’ve opened the sky
in my heart
and the
walls of my fortress
are a sunken wreck
I have floated
to the surface
waves
crushed my body
as I rose You
carefully collected
all the lost parts
and knitted me
together with
Your lovely hands
saturated with
eternal love.
~ Janavi Held © 2017
Letters to My Oldest Friend 