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Eric Ashford

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Eric Ashford lives in England, he is a mystic and poet who believes that poetry is an authentic spiritual path in its own right. Writing poetry is contemplative, healing and a way of self realization. He would also say that poetic self-expression is how we choose to view and become the art of our own life.

His first book, "Speaking Through the Opening" is a collection of 200 poems that explores the creative process as it is lived through the poetry of the soul. He is currently engaged upon a book of daily meditations to be called, "Nothing But This Love." He is also in the process of writing a book of inspired reflections of Rumi, entitled, "Conversations with Rumi." He has been published in various magazines both in hard copy and in Net form.

Preface to Speaking Through the Opening

When I first saw the quote of Bokonon “Let your life be the poem you write”, (A black 19th century mystic/poet born in Tobago in 1891), I knew I had stumbled somehow upon the mystic meaning of the poetic and spiritual life. This revelation led me to explore my own soul-work, how as a poet, I could live my life through the poetry of my soul for each soul is, indeed, our own inner poet. The soul visualizes reality in symbolic images that are founded upon a language that does not need words at all, yet it translates that language for us into vision, experience and reason. It creates our reality from its own reality, and until we are in touch with its deeper meaning, we must be forever disconnected from how we see and interface with the outer world.

Poets are everywhere; there is no one that has not the poetic ability to live their own poetic spiritual vision for we all have our inner poet to draw upon. Some of us actually learn the craft of writing poetry; others express their poetry in other forms of art; yet, all of us create and paint our self-image and our world view from the substance of our soul poems. It is our divine mission to envision the poems of our soul and express them in our ordinary lives, no matter what work we may be engaged upon. For we should all bring our own poetic ideal to everything we do in the world. Thus, we are all poets and we all “say ourselves” in the way we express that divine ideal in our daily living.

Poems by Eric Ashford

	A Flame in the Eye of Love
	Dances with Sophia
	Ecstasy
	Loves Portrait
	Morning Market
	Perfectly
	Speak Yourself Open Like the Sky
	Stay Close to the Lovers
	Suddenly
	The Breath of Love
	The Journey
	Your Green and Living Art

Recommended Books

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

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Related Links:

	Dances With Sophia - Poems by Eric Ashford http://poetrywithinspace.blogspot.com/ Eric Ashford's poetry blog. A rich resource of his wonderful poetry.
	Truevision - Yahoo Poetry Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truevision An excellent (and very active!) Yahoo poetry group with many regular posts by Eric Ashford among others.
	True Vision Poetry - The Poetry of Eric Ashford http://www.truevisionpoetry.com/ Several selections of Eric Ashfords poetry, including some excerpts from his book "Speaking Through the Opening."
	Dark Flowers and Sky Blooms: Poems of Light and Dark http://darkblooms.blogspot.com/ Another one of Eric Ashford's poetry blogs.

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