Tuesday, 13 October 2009

If I Knew You & You Knew Me - Nixon Waterman


If I knew you and you knew me,

If both of us could clearly see,

And with an inner sight divine,

The meaning of your heart and mine,

I'm sure that we would differ less,

And clasp our hands in friendliness;

Our thoughts would pleasantly agree,

If I knew you and you knew me.


- One L❤ve, One Heart, Lets get together and feel alright...

Friday, 9 October 2009

The Journey - Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.


- 'When the voice inside you becomes louder and clearer than the voices around you, you've mastered your life' I can't quite remember who said this but it was in the dvd/book The Secret I leave to go to Australia in 2 weeks and I most definetly feel like I'm leaping in the hope that the net will appear. When I made the decision to do this I had to ask myself questions about what I wanted and the universe showed me that this would be my path. Too many things happened. The biggest thing that happened of all was that I followed my intuition. In this case I didn't want to hear the voices around me. I was able, in that moment, to envision myself going deeper into the world with a determination to better myself and be open to new experiences and a new culture. I'll let you know if it works out ;-) And so my love for this poem is centred around the idea of self. You have to follow where your heart leads you. Others won't always agree but sometimes you have to be still with solitude and listen to your intuition. Your life is a blank canvas until you paint it, don't let anyone else destroy that piece of art. It belongs to you and only you. I always add photos/pictures that I believe represent the poem. And seeing as the topic is about following your heart who better to portray that than....me! ;-)