Trusting
My own
Heartbeat
White violets
In spring.
© Salem Islas-Madlo 2016
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou
Month: March 2016
Celebrate World Poetry Day
In 1999, UNESCO decided to recognize the importance of poetry by designating March 21st World Poetry Day. Poetry still plays a big part in arts and culture today, constantly evolving and branching off into other artistic avenues, such as: spoken work, music, and painting.
Poetry is often underrated, and many frown upon reading it assuming all poems are hard to understand. It is a craft many use to express emotions, share culture and stories from their lives, and bring awareness to causes. Poetry is a tool artists use to inform the world, while growing within. For some it is therapy, for others it is a creative delight.
If you are a writer or just love to read poetry, there are many ways to celebrate World Poetry Day:
- If you are a poet, share a few of your poems throughout the day using the hashtag #worldpoetryday. While you’re at it…
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I Know You’re There
Inner child
Grow inside my heart
First day of spring
© Salem Islas-Madlo 2016
“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.
As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.
As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.
As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!”
― Charlie Chaplin
*photo by Enkel Dika,
Let Loose
*photo by Bill Eppridge
There comes a time when you just have to let loose and be yourself. Throw away all the fears, and open to what is there. No matter what. Open to it…
“…confidence, certainty, commitment, perseverance, focus, courage, decisiveness and a willingness to take a risk.”
“The risk is about truth, faith and going after what you know in your heart to be right from a place of integrity and spirit.”
“This will affect all areas of your life including business, relationships, how you show up in the world, your health and well-being, and whom you choose to be around and what you choose to complete or eliminate from your life.”
~Mysticmama, http://www.mysticmamma.com/astrology-for-march-2016-beyond-recognition-by-sarah-varcas/
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” ― Allen Ginsberg
“Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.” ― John Grisham
You never know what you’ll discover when you find the courage to be true to yourself. You’ll be about the raddest person alive in your skin!
Heart Breathing
Illustration by Cinzia Bardelli
Heart flutterings
Of butterfly girl
Old soul eyes
As big as
The moon
A spirit
Dancing tenderly
With the Earth
To music
Born
From silence
An inner laughter
Of firefly stars
Breathing
In rivers
and
Breathing
Out oceans
She lives
In the
Gift of
Presence.
© Salem Islas-Madlo 2016
*more art of Cinzia Bardelli can be found at:
Deep Souldiving 