Susan Storey.....: The Extraordinary Nature Of Ordinary Life

23.2.13

The Extraordinary Nature Of Ordinary Life

I stand in the kitchen chopping vegetables for stew
as Presence descends softly and effortlessly.
The room is full, and different than it was an instant before.

I am lifted from the world of moments....
beyond thought, beyond language or story.
Suspended in a kind of timeless knowing beyond knowledge,
an absolute understanding permeates my being and I am free
from tangles past and present.

Gently wrapped within the rapture of experience
clarity permeates my being and
I am returned just as effortlessly.....
to the land of moments and language,
as the knife in my hand slices into the heart of an onion.

The extraordinary nature of ordinary life....
a pregnant stillness, ever birthing
ever born.

Susan Storey

I have come to realize that who we think we are is in the way of who we truly are. Art and verse are the braille I use to explore a psycho-spiritual blindness that I find myself emerging from.... and falling back into, though each time a bit more awakened than the last. The words here are, as am I, figments of an active imagination attempting to awaken itself from a dense dream called 'reality'. I use blank verse as a practice in presence; a meditation where I quiet the mind and wait on the words that arise in the heart. Often they reflect esoteric and introspective aspects within the illusion of form. Other times they address specific situations I am facing and serve as breadcrumbs leading me back to center. From time to time I cull the pages of my notebooks and randomly choose several pieces to share here. As for the imagery on this blog, it is a kind of wordless poetry; visual stories awaiting the teller. Each of the pieces are original. More of this work can be seen at my website and blog.