Community Soul Messages Project
For this project, I share what Susan Wooldridge calls a “word pool” in her book poemcrazy: freeing your life with words, which is cutting out words from magazines and putting them in a container of some kind. I use a glass jar. Then I pull out a hand full of words, lay them out on my table and take a picture of them, then share on Instagram and Facebook and invite anyone to see what poems or messages emerge out of the word pool. It has been so inspiring and moving to see what moves through everyone. Such deep wisdom emerges in spontaneous moments when given an invitation and encouragement free from judgement. The soul will always find a way to express itself.
Community Word Pool #1
Here are some beautiful poetic messages that have emerged from people around the world who saw this community word pool on Instagram:
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My roaming spirit,
listen to the unspeakable inner fire,
the ancient stream.
My hands ephemeral,
meet showing the artifacts beneath your desperate journey.
Listen,
listen,
imagine a new brave land.
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Ephemeral conversation
Boundless openings
Roaming wisdom
The land is my poem
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Off the map
Beneath the stream
Ancient power
Exhaling fire
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Open my body healers
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Roaming wisdom openings to connection
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Off the map,
my hands listen to the conversation,
small refuge,
create a new
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Become abundant
with kindness
Become abundant.
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My hands create a new vessel
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Meet the ancient boundless Spirit of the land.
Become quiet.
Become.
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ephemeral spirit fire roaming ancient community. . .
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My small refuge.
Spirit connection.
My hands become healers.
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beneath your stream / our poem
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Ephemeral lights come
from near and far,
roaming
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Cultivate the land beneath your care.
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Spirit connections cultivate inner conversation.
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The land beneath my hands
Spirit connection becomes open
Reinterpreting that ephemeral poem
Create a new, quiet power
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Ephemeral spirit roaming
open the conversation
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Cultivate the land
Become human
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Roaming spirit become ephemeral, boundless
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Beneath the ancient stream the land is exhaling…
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Create a new small refuge…
Community Word Pool #2
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rewriting sounds
it takes wonder
silence
tender intentions
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Tune in to my heart, listen to the sounds, wonder at the experience
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Lanterns of curiosity create a bright experience…
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Wild microcosms of bright lanterns
Silence the crying map of echoes of the heart
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Facing this silence of retreat.
Sharing my sounds of the heart.
I had to return to the surrendering of my perceptions.
Allowing moments of refuge through silence.
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The breath of trees speak of my ancestors
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Inside the waiting,
Practice surrendering,
Quiet heart,
Listens.
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our beginning is a gift of small tender layers that silence our wild entry points
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Inside the waiting house, I had to tune into we again.
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Her friend, silence, listens
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My wild curiosity belongs to the surrendering years of rewriting a life
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Life starts again
rewriting small layers
Inside out
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The breath
a door
to change entry points
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It takes practice
to quiet this wild heart
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It takes silence to hear
sounds
intentions
surroundings
friends
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I had to / retreat / It takes / a map of echoes / to begin / rewriting life
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Rewriting the narrative
experience curiosity
tune in to life
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Hear the breath of quiet
speak silence….
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My ancestors create a passage
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the house listens inside the waiting
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the breath surrendering, the body sparking
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A tender narrative
is a heart living
inside out
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I had to retreat
Inside the waiting
Quiet is here
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I prefer silence.
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The map of echoes rewriting my body.
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Tune in to curiosity again
Practice
Sense
Listen
Hear
Open the heart
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Return to wonder
Allowing moments of refuge
Tune in to the tender narrative of life.
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I sense a return to life again
Sparking wild, vibrant wonder
Rewriting perceptions
Finding the pull of sharing, of many friends.
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Years,
my life rewriting experience
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Here are some beautiful poetic messages that have emerged from people around the world who saw this community word pool:
Community Word Pool #4
And below is what emerged from people when given the invitation and prompt to write a poem or poetic message from what they saw and felt in the world pool:
Emerging.
Finding openings
In the illusion.
I had to return to
The miraculous.
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I had to hold the uncommon edge...
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Finding the heart through the labyrinth circle
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Emerging for the harmony,
for the delivering,
for the spirit
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Healing up from the depths of the heart
through writing,
through silence
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Tuning with water,
with the heart,
purify the spirit
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Miraculous silence foraging up from the depths...
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I had to return to the labyrinth before finding uncommon flow of spirit.
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The future, emerging through your miraculous labyrinth of illusion.
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Foraging through Heart Openings
Before
Return to Silence
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Emerging up from the depths
finding flow through the labyrinth…
hold the silence
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Finding openings
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Circle through silence,
return to your heart.
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Spirit water
bright radiance,
finding your heart opening
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Up from the depths of the Labyrinth,
Circle the Openings inside the heart,
Before finding healing harmony.
Community Word Pool #5:
Below is what emerged from people when given the invitation and prompt to write a poem or poetic message from what they saw and felt in the world pool:
Uncommon calls inspire emerging memory,
creating magical portals and entry into a universal dimension.
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Books inspire emerging portals of the memory
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Magical journeys emerging from our story
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The artist takes threads of magical dimension to inspire our journeys
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The story calls now for journeys to our uncommon threads.
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Universal emerging
transforming heartfelt journeys
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Foraging in memory portals…
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story takes shape in uncommon dimension
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art calls for uncommon journeys
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Gentle heartfelt journeys
emerging from uncommon threads
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magical threads inspire story
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Emerging,
creating,
transforming;
journeys of the uncommon artist…
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Gentle memory emerging,
the threads telling our story...
heartfelt,
magical
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Art portals call,
thread shapes story,
the telling is transforming.
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Foraging in nature inspires the art.
Creating,
expressing,
transforming...
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The artist journeys
to portals
for uncommon memory.
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Community Word Pool #6
Here is what emerged from people when given the invitation and prompt to share a poem or message they saw in the words above:
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Cultivate warm retreat upgrades.
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Exploring
The valley of unknown
Towards true silence
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The power of the ephemeral
Is the child
Fragile self-reflection
Celebrating vulnerability
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Imagine
Leaving them
Lanterns of available light
Warm fire
Acts of connection
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The garden
Passage
Towards warm fun to play
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Why doors
Between them?
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head flux
a lot of things have happened
cultivate the available light
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Fragile self-reflection,
building balance,
for the gift of change
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Retreating to the garden of my own mind
through conversation and connection
with the tender child
that lies within.
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Cultivating a connection,
Understanding why
A lot of things have happened.
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Self reflection
is a lifelong passage;
Exploring the valley of the unknown,
building shape out of silence,
and a calm sense of balance
from the turbulent flux that once consumed me
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Acts of writing
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exploring the Valley of the Unknown
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open doors
of connection
toward tender balance.
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The rock talks of silence.
Let your quiet mind
notice the gift.
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GARDEN THE EXPLORATORIUM
Feed the flux;
Cultivate the silhouette,
Tender the mind towards,
the valley of the unknown.
Abstract the fire;
Ephemeral midnight gift,
Lanterns at the edge,
of warm available light.
Feel the passage;
Soften - shape the tunnel,
Imagine luscious self-reflection,
stays the power of balance.
Through the rock;
Between - vulnerability exploring,
Leaving that lifelong talk;
keep meeting under the sun.
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The power of fire
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Imagine:
a dreamlike,
luscious,
fun,
crispy silhouette celebrating balance in available light,
synchronize a fragile, ephemeral soul in a retreat passage.
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