‘glass slippers’
/
i open
/
these eyes
to silvery ribbons
dancing across
/
surface of river
/
spirits of glass
essence of water
[ephemeral movement]
/
tension
at the surface
or...
2025-11-19 12:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the organ of the heart is the ‘emperor’ of the body.
When the heart is in balance, the whole body is in harmony. When the heart goes out of balance, so does everything else; there is dis-harmony, dis-ease.
TCM tells us that the heart houses the Shen (spirit, or ‘original soul’...
2025-11-17 18:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post
the first image is of my grandpa who was an incredible poet and immigrated here from lebanon. he loved deeply. most of his poetry is in arabic. it reminds me of rumi and hafiz and khalil gibran, who he loved. he died during covid. he loved to dance and i love this photo of him where his hands are so grace full it appears like a spontaneous mudra...
2025-11-14 19:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post![humans at the colony [film + excerpt from 'internal medicine']](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/12/cb/tl/4e9b88-019e8b5f-ce14-7fc4-9fdb-2159275ddf6c.jpg)
i see now
this kinky dance
that seems to take place
outside of me, begins
/
internally
/
we are
unfathomable
we are
completely mundane
/
the hummanness
the mess
the sweet struggle
is what makes us
/
godly
/
what is perfection
...
2025-11-12 16:55:07 +0000 UTC View Postsee a rainbow
translucent shawl
over cold mountains
dark lavender
and pale gold
appear and disappear
like a mirage,
a river streams quick
down the face
of the m...
2025-10-31 20:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
the queen of swords denotes the perceptive wisdom gained through difficult experiences. becki embodied this archetype so gracefully. it’s a blessing to make art with her.
2025-10-29 16:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I DON’T KNOW
who i am. who you are.
and that is amazing.
imagine knowing?
how boring.
i pray we see eachother
with fresh eyes in each moment:
no past, no future
in the fertile space
at the end of the exhale,
we can lay down our ideas&nbs...
2025-10-21 01:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
see
what happens
when you stay
/
and surrender
and surrender
and surrender
/
to God
2025-10-16 20:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
the ones who Know
the deepest suffering
are the ones
/
who raised me
/
you cannot be
tough if you haven’t been
through trials and toughness
/
yet so soft
are these bei...
2025-10-09 13:48:48 +0000 UTC View Post
a turning point.
to become
unshakeable,
rooted here
between two trees
thank you earth
ancestors
and the wind
who whispers
with compassion
this voice is not me
and it is...
2025-10-01 20:40:46 +0000 UTC View Postat the river
there is a golden tree
standing alone, above the water
and reflected on the surface
blooming below, a dream
the birds cry and i wade
into the mirage
whispering
/
it rains gently on the surfa...
2025-09-24 10:08:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Autumn is a time of letting go, of yin, rhythms, of preservation of the space at the end of the exhale. Of change, of the wind, and the sunlight becomes more golden still. “Yin teaches us the wisdom of surrender. Yin chooses to yield even when everyone else is getting ahead. Like an inner earth, yin is the soil in which we gestate our dre...
2025-09-11 16:34:49 +0000 UTC View Postthe problem
and the solution
are in the individual.
/
a teacher says this
and i nod in comprehension
but it is different to feel it alive
/
inside the navel
the tension of opposites
how...
2025-09-02 19:11:42 +0000 UTC View Post![may all inner obstacles dissolve in That eternal luminosity … [prayer on the day of ganesha]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/9/ke/gx/4e9b88-019e8b5f-d06c-7e51-8036-4c5255c7288f.jpg)
life lately. a river, a dream… grateful always
2025-08-27 17:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
from new moon in virgo yesterday. self, magnolia (over the eye), and the river. also, a poem for you,
…
I.
i lay down
on a fallen tree
to write this
/
when supported by tree
spine clicks subtly a thousand times
whatever i do willingly or unwillingly
i am offering its fruits
whether happiness or misery
to You.
/
there is nothing to know
aside from the forest inside
or river in the spine...
2025-08-21 20:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
an empty glass
beer bottle /
a red flower
in a circle of stones /
which is holier
in Your eyes? /
i am not anywhere
but here /
i am
2025-08-09 21:22:08 +0000 UTC View Posti ask my mother, the river, to purify the fire and i am still in her waters. i notice when i do not move, everything is magnetized towards me. i notice pale rainbow on iridescent thigh. the surface tension accentuating gold speckled leaf. reflection of sun in the dark, silky waters. cosmos. i want to be fully alive; to love fully, i tell the...
2025-07-26 16:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
i experimented with myself and am still doing so. sometimes there is a long wink of liberosis but other times i nearly lose this mind. both are good.
the Sun rises again and the air is cool and there is a calm which im not sure is within or without definitely both. thank you to the fertile dirt!
when it is time...
2025-07-22 14:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post![november diary [8]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/4/qy/dm/4e9b88-019e8b5f-ce69-7112-811c-4852c6a3aa5f.jpg)
![full moon [visual diary: 12]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/2/ay/gi/4e9b88-019e8b5f-cea7-7a8b-bbda-9dc927c9c65d.jpg)
![reflections [iii]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/12/nz/ju/4e9b88-019e8b5f-d05c-7451-a9b4-4f065c2f82c4.jpg)
