Guest Poets & Artist
Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Peter Shefler - Where two artists compliment each other's work.
Besought - In Thought We Ask
Beseeched - Peter Shefler Thrown like dice in
sevens, I had not thought of this
before I met you, but now between ice and thaw I saw how you are just
like me in so many ways - how you like the unsurfaced boundary or meeting-places between
sea and strand; many waves washing the twilit
purples and blues we might see if with
opened eyes we dared gaze in awe upon those
inward-heading heavens. For however occluded or
unknown or unmet we are, such universes abound
just a short distance from our near-sighted
gaze - look, they are just right over there! -
he says, pointing westward. Spirit knows no
boundaries and ignores our fears of closeness - so why not come up now once more for
air; why not let the porpoised breath exhaled prepare us for the
deepest spirit dive into this unknown, unguessed, unfathomed and untraveled still
unblessed world? So now, please, will we
wait for the sure ocean wave
familiar, and surf safely there to
that fine sandy beach? Or will we instead, take
into us the divine breath and the
word of our gods guiding us - hand in hand, and death
into raveled death repeated, reach beyond the ken of
the familiar comforting strands where
all our lives have led, and dare tread into the
wholly unknown seas, still to be declared and
beseeched? Copyright 2013 Peter Shefler |
Beseech Thee - Taoli-Ambika Talwar Beseech thee, I do for
Spirit knows beyond the lees what lies and what dies and what enlivens the
core dancing waves see how they chortle
falling into grace endless nothing where sands filter the
violet rays into spaces so deep we
cannot see… Boundaries are days
meeting night meeting intimately so
closely eyes cannot see or know But the crinkling line
that edges into sands suggests an untraveled
world lies within these palms how water flows between
our entwined fingers into a basin mingling
twilit hues into sands where we once
dug our toes particles into fine ash into forgetting what the
world was as we sank lower and
lower into the gaze the impenetrable gaze of sea of sea of deep
blue…so mauve of tumult that a single
heart understands for having eaten itself
before time… unmet universes are rare rarer still the unmet-ness coming alive breathing
not breathing alive in breathlessness in this shadow of seas a blessing of infinite
tears… Until we sank deeper
where all sound was hum a moan a silence so loud a breath Copyright 2013 |
TAOLI-AMBIKA TALWAR is an educator, published author and artist, who has written poetry since her teen years. She has authored Creative Resonance: Poetry—Elegant Play, Elegant Change, 4 Stars & 25 Roses (poems for her father) as well as some chapbooks. Her style is largely ecstatic making her poetry a “bridge to other worlds.” She is published in Kyoto Journal, Inkwater Ink, vol. 3, Chopin with Cherries, among others. She is also published in VIA, in Poets on Site chapbooks, and several other journals; has been interviewed by KPFK; and has won an award for a short film at a festival in Belgium.
As an effective and successful wellness consultant, she practices IE:Intuition-Energetics™, a fusion of the Yuen Method, goddess studies, sacred geometry and creative/energetic principles for wellness. “Both poetry and holistic practices work beautifully together, for language is intricately coded in us. In resonance with our authentic self, we experience wholeness & wellness,” she notes. “I love to work with people to help them discover their unique purpose.” She has taught English at Cypress College, Cypress, California, for several years. Thus far, she has taught about 6,500 students.
Sites: http://goldenmatrixvisions.com & http://intuition2wellness.com
Interview: http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/taoli-ambika-talwar/
Twitter: LuminousFields & Facebook fan page: Luminous Fields
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Peter Shefler was born in 1950 and raised in a remote rural area of Western Pennsylvania filled with the wonders of nature, and nurtured by a family of visual artists, Peter Shefler has been writing poetry since the age of twelve. He began a study of ancient mythologies and the creative process shortly thereafter and finished his formal education in English literature and poetry at Reed College in Portland Oregon. Over the ensuing decades he mastered the practice of a number of the realms of the visual arts, finally specializing in photography, but always came back to poetry for his deepest expressions of a sometimes devastating and sometimes ecstatic but always richly emotional continuum of personal experiences and observations.
Always seeking to maintain a deep connection to the mystery of the natural world and the spiritual aspects involved in the creation of art, Peter often combines his poetry with photographic images — the poem sometimes inspiring the creation of the photograph, and the photograph often inspiring the mood of the poem. He is currently working on A Book of Colors, listing several thousand historical color names interspersed with photographs of the natural world highlighting those colors and a compilation of poetry and other literature that contains the names of those colors.
Photography: http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=100000571690647
Poetry & Other Notes: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000571690647&sk=notes