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Original Language
English

Suddenly

Themes

Birds

Heart

Lotus

Rose

Sky

Recommended Books

	Speaking Through the Opening: Allowing Your Life to Be Your Poem, by Eric Ashford

Suddenly
there are outbreaks of bird-song.
The winter sun has found the sky again
and has reached into its heart
to be this late blossoming
that is now your soul
dancing up into your eyes.

Suddenly, you are this bathing beauty
of the day
immersed in the grace of a singing ocean
that overflows the land's chill dreams.
You are a song-bird of your spirit
lighter than any shadow.

Suddenly you remember
that there will be a Spring
and that if you stay alert to its arrival;
if you keep your hands open
in a grateful readiness to receive,
then the sun will pour out of your heart
and you shall suddenly bloom
just as you do now.

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