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Banafsheh photographer unknown
“You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?”
Rumi
WE ARE BEING LIVED
Eyes closed
Touch the quiet
Embrace
Drum beat, matching heartbeat
Turning…..
Music becoming flesh
We are being danced.
Eyes open
Hear the sounds
Listen
Earth beat, touching heartbeat
Turning…..
Sounds becoming words
We are being written.
Dance
Words
Longing and desire
Turning…..
Watch
Love becoming life
We are being lived.
westcoastwoman© 2019
Wildly and Dangerously Free 
Lush and gorgeous. Well penned my friend.
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I was ‘being written’ I spent a weekend in paradise on a small island dancing with Banafsheh, she took us all to a place where we understood what it was to be ‘danced’ and ‘written’. I am still in gratitude.
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OH MY GOD!!! You just keep getting better and better and better. This is quality work! Selective. We Are Being Lived reminds me of two poems I put together in a blog post, by Rumi and Octavio Paz, especially the notion of being written. https://theuncarvedblog.com/2014/06/27/poems-by-rumi-and-octavio-paz-open-our-minds-to-a-more-cosmic-perspective/.
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thank you so much Ken…..as I said in the previous comment when I woke up today I felt like I was ‘being written’ just trying to describe the group experience. Thank you also for the suggestion and the link to your blog.
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Yes, I see you had participated in a weekend of dance classes with Banafsheh! Was that at Hollyhock?
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No, although I have danced with her at Hollyhock last Fall and in Turkey earlier this summer. This workshop was at Stowel Lake Farm on Saltspring Island (a beautiful Gulf Island off Vancouver.
Island)
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I used to visit Galiano Island when I lived in Vancouver. I visited friends on Salt Spring Island two summers ago. It’s a very special place!
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Whew! That was delicious. I loved your breathing life into the little intimacies of life itself. Brilliant!
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Thank you Violet. Loved that…… “the little intimacies of life itself”
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I love this idea of life living us, the luxury of surrendering ourselves to that. It’s beautiful 💜
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thank you so much Rachel….
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Absolutely beautiful!!
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Thank you so much Tara… this one felt very much like it came through not ‘from’ my pen….
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Yes, I know exactly what you’re saying.
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Beautiful!!!
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Oh that was good, you are really enjoying this now, it shows in your word flow ~ 😘
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Thank you, I am enjoying it…..
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Beautiful…
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Thank you for reading and commenting. Welcome.
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With such a sensel of truth in it..
Great post!!
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Thank you so much.
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