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      • LEAVING PATACARA
      • ANTICIPATION OF BLOSSOMS
      • HE MARKED MY BODY
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      • SILENT REACH
      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
      • IN THE FEEL
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      • PSALM '66 – SUMMER '63
      • SURRENDER
      • DHARMA RAIN
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      • 3 LAGOONS - Jeffrey Davis
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      • DARKNESS - Jeffrey Davis
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      • BUDDHISM 101
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      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
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      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
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      • A PRAYER
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      • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
      • Motion Poems Video - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
      • A Painting & Poet Connect
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    • Leila A. Fortier - Poems from Numinous >
      • Original Art for Numinous
    • Ron Starbuck - Poetry >
      • Trane Ascending
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • VOICES
      • Language of Poetry
      • Advent
      • Rumi
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Storm Shadow
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
  • Poetry–In–Film
  • Interconnections
  • Press Releases I
    • Bring Your Nights With You
    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release – Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
    • Bird Light Press Release
    • Press Release - There is Something About Being and Episcopalian
    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
    • Press Release Savor Eternity by Fred LaMotte
    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
    • Press Release - FUEGO by LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ
    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
  • Press Releases II
    • Press Release - Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Press Release - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
    • Press Release - Wounded Bud
    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
    • Press Release - Numinous
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    • NIGHT LADDER
    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Amy Barone
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Aliki Barnstone - Poetry >
      • Alas
      • Take a Deep Breath
      • With God in the Morning
    • A Review - "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
    • RJ Jeffreys - Down To The Boats - The Men Go
    • RJ Jeffreys - Down To The Sea - Alone
    • Donna Baier Stein - The Yellow Brick Road
    • Gayle J. Greenlea >
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      • Zero Gravity
      • Christmas in Newtown
      • Defibrillation
      • Gayle J. Greenlea - Chiaroscuro: Ode to Three Artists
      • Gayle J. Greenlea - Wonderland
    • Cindy Rinne >
      • Song
      • Airborne
      • Heaven Laughed
      • Contemplation of the Sea
      • Germinate
      • Intonation
    • Audrey Griffin >
      • Ode to the Dimmest Star
      • Ten
      • Lo
      • The Maze
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
      • passing moments [deceptive cadences]
      • veils of Persephone definitions of Demeter mysteries of Orpheus
      • Who Goes There
      • 3 Poems
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    • Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald >
      • Hélène Cardona & John FitzGerald - Recording from October 5, 2013
      • Twenty-five and Breeze Rider
    • Taoli-Ambika Talwar
    • Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Peter Shefler
    • Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Ron Starbuck >
      • Voices I
      • Voices II
      • Voices III
      • Voices IV
      • Voices V
      • Voices VI
      • Voices VII
      • Voices VIII
    • Maria Elena B. Mahler >
      • Forever Ticket
      • A Voided Day
      • When the Nightingale no Longer Thrills our Veins
    • Stephen Linsteadt >
      • Hoping Sartre Was Wrong
      • The Secret Language of Irises
      • Stinson Beach
      • Fisher of the Nile
    • Paula Dawn Lietz >
      • Fields of Yellow Fields of Gold
      • Mesmerized
      • Pixies and Petals
      • Spent Energy
      • Surrender
      • No Restrictions
      • The Saunter
      • The Surge
      • The Walk That Spoke
      • Your Existence
      • Your Name
    • Adele Kenny - Poetry
    • Erica Lehrer >
      • Alchemy At Eight O'Clock
      • The Rio Frio
      • 1558.4
    • Anna Yin - Poetry >
      • Our Feelings Are Like a House
      • Present Is Beyond
      • The Night Garden
      • The Robin
      • Falling into Pieces
      • Window and Mirror
    • Luke Storms
    • Tracy Cochran
    • Laurence Freeman - Meditation
    • Carl Sandburg - Poetry >
      • Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
      • TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
    • W.S. Merwin - Yesterday
    • W.B. Yeats - Recordings
    • Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
    • Langston Hughes - Poetry for Black History Month
  • Through the Spoken Word
  • Paul F. Knitter - Interview
    • Jesus: The Way That is Open to Other Ways by theologian Paul F. Knitter
    • Paul F. Knitter - Short Essay
  • Submissions & Contact
  • Online Literary Publications
  • Events
    • Event - Feb. 27, 2016
    • December 5th ~ A Midwinter Tale
    • Hélène Cardona & John FitzGerald - Recording from October 5, 2013
  • In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
  • Our Directors
    • Ken Jones
    • Ron Starbuck
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Fred LaMotte - Author and Poet


 

DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON

 

"In the lover's heart is a lute which plays the melody of longing." ~Rumi

 

Don't satisfy this yearning right away;
let it season the meat on your breastbone.
Don't quench your need too soon;
stay thirsty all night, stay thirsty.
You are the wine, you need to get flavored
and darkened by the oak of what contains you.
Don't fill your belly right now with bread;
let your emptiness growl and lead you
to a better feast: stay hungry, stay hungry.
Don't staunch your lips with lover's kisses;
keep your tongue singing till dawn.
If you grow cold, don't warm yourself
with silk or downy comforter;
keep shivering, keep shivering.
Stay awake in the dark fire only nakedness can kindle.
Don't end your journey at the Master's feet;
his sandals are on the same path as yours.
Longing becomes what you long for;
seek what cannot be named.
Long for the lightning in the void.
Long for the Christ in trembling silence.
Long for the intimate mirror.
Long for the flame that burns a hole in the Master's gaze.
Long to become the beauty that breaks
each bud, each egg, each star, each heart from inside,
break, break from inside!
Let your longing for the Beloved
become the Beloved's longing for you.

 

 

 

 

Fred LaMotte

Copyright 2013

Interfaith Chaplain

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, WA

Poetry Site:  http://thebelovedwithin.blogspot.com/

 


Fred LaMotte is an interfaith college chaplain at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA, as well as an adjunct instructor in World Religions, teaching college courses through distance learning program for deployed military personal. Fred is a Quaker. He has degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary. 

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