Patricia Sanders, poet

song: 100 years by Five for Fighting

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Photo of lilac in Oregon taken by me

 

 

The

 

Butterfly’s Song

A journey of discovering one’s self through love

 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
                               ~by Marianne Williamson

 

 

Feeling this

Lightness of being

I know

A new day has dawned

In my soul

                           ~ Patricia Sanders

 

I began writing poetry at the age of 12.  I did not know it would aid me in discovering a new intimacy with my own spirit, teaching me about love and revealing to me who I am on the path of knowing thyself.

 

Meditation further aided me in this process which took me to the depths of my own shadow and back again into my light with a newfound sense of peace and a wisdom I would have not had otherwise.

 

I believe that all that has been my life, all the heartache, the love I have known has been the path I was meant to go down to learn about myself. You cannot truly know another unless you know yourself.

 

Though not an easy journey, I am grateful for the destination I have now arrived at.

 

 

 

 

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look to see who’s there.

                                                ~Rumi



 

Serenity

 

Self-acquaintance is a rare condition."                                     

                      

                   ~     Robert Henri

 

 

THe Butterfly's Song came about as time brought me to a transformation in my life that I have been going through for the past two years. 

 

I lived a life of struggle and what appeared to be one disappointment after another.

 

I finally surrendered after my third divorce to a man I married twice. Having to revisit heartache once again I asked God to show me what to do as I realized that up to this point I had not found any sense of contentment within.  I did much soul searching, meditated and prayed my way through this. One day I awoke with a new sense of awe and enchantment that has followed me ever since. I have a new peace inside of me that I have never known before.  Life is a gift, love is a gift and I have a new appreciation for life that sustains me.  

 

"Things do not change; we change."

                         ~Henry David Thoreau

 
 

 The Butterfly's Song formerly titled Love's Journey is available at amazon.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

~ Oprah Winfrey

photo of me at 18
 

Refinement

   

 

Sailing through

The odyssey of my mind

I capture moments

In time

Like a photograph

Etched in my soul

Absorbed by my heart

 

The experience of life

The joys and sorrows

Of living

The essence of my being

 

The me I am now

Colored by

The road I have traveled on

The love I have felt

The people I have known

 

These are the treasures

I hold

Deep inside of me

Each moment

Refining my soul through time

The Butterfly’s Song

The spiritual path

Full of twists and turns

A road upon the map of the soul

The destination usually a transformation of sorts

The butterfly’s song

A school of review

That begins timidly

Toes in the water, a testing to see

How it feels

Then comes the time when we must dive in

To the pool of lessons

A place of uncertainty, the roller coaster ride

Taking us along

A soul ready comes through this tunnel

To a renewal of spirit

Light being cast

Applause rings out

As the universe celebrates

The new birth

The Collective Contemplation

The executioner’s belief

The beauty of grief

The intricacy of who we are

Is woven with threads

Interlaced with pearls of wisdom

Creating a unique fingerprint

That only we become

This is the beauty

This is the gift

That only one can bring

Nowhere duplicated

Every one of us an original

A creation to share

The collective contemplation

Rejoices in our discovery