Poetry
Re-fleshed
June 21, 2023 MayaAbouChedid
“Welcome home”, I heard.
The pain you carried is no longer.
The necklace around your neck is down.
The agreement of conditioning is cancelled.
“I forgive you”, a…
Burning Flame
February 5, 2023 MayaAbouChedid
One day, I looked
To meet your eyes.
I was hooked.
I asked why?
Not in chains.
Nor in spells.
Rather your flame,
Caught me by.
Your heart,…
The Beloved
December 5, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
I was told stories of the One and only,Beloved, in form, also ghostly. The dream begins, awake yet sleepy.The narrator utters, echoing was the weepy
Rising in Love
October 29, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
I searched,
From birth, I searched,
For what? I wondered.
With many, I wandered.
Getting lost, I pondered,
Back to the bones, I fluttered.
Love, the way I…
Morning Dew
October 1, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Listening to the wind,
The tunes playing in my ear,
I sit still.
Still to heal, still to feel,
You by me, you in me.
The smile I…
Death is Here
August 30, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
I feel the stillness,
I smell the scent,
Death is here.
Welcome my dear.
The Space in Between
July 31, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Love me or hate me,
It doesn’t matter.
You are the one, loving.
You are the one, hating.
Or is it me?
Who am I loving?
And who…
I Am Mother
July 1, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Am I the scream?
… Of the earth within, cracking open the heart.
Am I the cry?
… Of the womb that created and carried time in every…
Eternal Reverie
May 1, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
The beauty in the simple
The beauty in the complex
Innocent eyes, a witness
Seeing perfection in chaos
Somewhere in between
And maybe in the unseen
Sleep…
Earthly Heaven
March 31, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
I always wondered about heaven
What and where is it?
How does it feel?
A human wondering in the field
The Faces of the Moon
February 28, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Moon, where are you?
Where is the light
In my night sky?
How many times
I looked at your face?
How many rhymes
Hummed with your grace?
You…
Playground
January 24, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Walk child, walk
Play as the trees cheer you
Laugh as the bees hear you
Fall to smell the fragrance of flowers
Catch the beetles and colorful cicadas…
How Long? How Far?
November 25, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
How Long? How Far?
Earth knows; spirals and cycles,
Stories of love, greed, dominions,
Empires rising to fall, fake and rotten,
Wounds of suffering, wide and open.
I Am Here
October 26, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
Dear Self,
What do you need?
Do you need to shed some tears? The soil is here, right beneath you.
Drop the fight and surrender. Cry the shame…
A Letter to Self
September 27, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
Dear Self,
What do you need?
Do you need to shed some tears? The soil is here, right beneath you.
Drop the fight and surrender. Cry the shame…
I Do
August 12, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
I Do
Bow to the majesty of nature.
I Do
Choose to experience life to the last drop.
I Do
Choose to be in my body, accepting.
I…
Water Me
June 29, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
Mother nature, you are my home, my church, my temple.
I see God in You.
I see You in Me.
Life is a caress,
For a heart that…
Love, You See…
June 2, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
“Wind, can you tell me
Your story; Where you were?
While still, lenient, strong
A thought, a storm
In the midst, a narrative untold?