a pearl afloat in the heavens

by Juliana Coles 

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Some people claim that broken things are all that's left. Shards of glass between the feet and the street. Shards of glass to pick up and use. to break the flesh. To hurt. "Go ahead, cut yourself", people say. "Cut someone else." Broken questions in the pieces of night. Scattered. Broken souls that have become questions with no answers. Shards of people on the shards of a world. Some look to the sky and ask, "Why are we even here?" To listen. To feel. To mend. We come here to mend,and to try to learn some kindness. Brother. Sister. 

-- James Lee Jobe

In the heart of your heart, you know: 

the mountains are wide, the waters are wide. 

-- Han Mu-shan

A full moon in spring

like a pearl afloat in the heavens 

so beautiful 

I watch for a short while 

and then return to this desk 

to write more poems 

-- James Lee Jobe

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Ike & Tina Turner, Rock Me, Baby

What is unseen 

flows to what is unseen 

-- W.S. Merwin

Life 

it begins at birth 

and it ends at 

Death 

-- James Lee Jobe 

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

— Pema Chödrön

Full-on spring now 

the warmth is steady 

and embracing 

like the love of a friend 

--James Lee Jobe 

Dogen said, "To learn something is to know yourself; to study Buddhism is to study yourself."

When I see a tower 

something within me 

wants to climb up 

but I never do 

-- James Lee Jobe 

It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we are relating to our experience. 

—Tara Brach

It was long ago and you were walking 

you stepped off from a cloud and onto a snowy mountaintop 

white clouds and white snow 

a white moment frozen in thought and time 

the sound of a strong wind against boulders 

you wondered if that was heaven 

-- James Lee Jobe 

Ask yourself: have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. 

-- Annie Lennox

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--James