cultivate – MaddogPoetry

Yield “Squared”

Yield to yield… Grant to bear – Bear to grant Submitting is to surrender with resignation and deference Yield to yield… Give to grow – Grow to give Cultivating is to nurture with detachment and indifference Yield to yield… Love to live – Live to love Harvesting is to provide with fruition and blossoming

IV The Emperor

(based on Meditations on the Tarot by Anonymous) Submit freely and reflect Revelation. Renounce self-serving opinion, embrace the supreme Truth. “The Spirit of God was hovering, over a formless and empty earth” [1] the void – God made a space without his presence. The Emperor has pure authority… not with the spoils of the rod,Continue reading “IV The Emperor”

Hesitation

Those, who hesitate, lose. Those, who cultivate, find. As a steward, I must be careful, Harvests just return ill-gotten fruits, the real yield is a revelation. The genuine find is not measured in accounting profits and losses, rather, realized in possibility. Hesitation demands a delay, it fails to share and defers action indulging in selfishContinue reading “Hesitation”

Apostolic Spirit

Apostolic is a practice of love and zeal regardless of fatigue and inconvenience. Spirit is a doer of good and kindness with detachment, openness and purity of intention. “Love your enemies, and do good to them, without expecting a return, for you are children of God… [1] What foils it? Anxiousness distracts the mind. WorldlinessContinue reading “Apostolic Spirit”

Tree Lessons

Adaptation changes colors – vividly reflecting the times it celebrates seasons Shedding sustains being – detaching a little at a time makes for a long life Dormancy practices stillness – listening to a cold wind keeps possibilities open “Out” is naked and vulnerable – exposure does not cancel it respects truth and goodness Blossoms renewContinue reading “Tree Lessons”

Consequences

Dreaming dreams and seeing visions transfigures us anew. Embrace the change and never be the same. Due… to unintended consequences it is futile to plan. No matter how careful we are, life happens and goes awry. Prepare we must for needs and wants, but not for a harvest. we must cultivate space and time toContinue reading “Consequences”