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Unfurl Your Heart

15 Saturday Feb 2020

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Essential Journey

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Unfurl Your Heart

©2020 Louise Gallagher

Unfurl your heart
peel back the layers of life
corroding your arteries
and holding you still
in pain and fear, sorrow and loss.

Unfurl your heart
let the light stream in through the cracks
lighting your path home to Love.

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Rune Stone Secrets

05 Tuesday Nov 2019

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creativity, NaNoWriMo, novel writing

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Posted by Louise Gallagher | Filed under Creativity and art

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Softening Into Wholeness

17 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Radical Wholeness

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Softening Into Wholeness

©2019 Louise Gallagher

Let me move
as softly as a leaf falling
the song of life
singing my heart and soul
awake
my senses
enraptured
by the wild and glorious
beauty of this one
divinely orchestrated
planet travelling through space.

Let me dance
as wild as a leaf
spinning with the wind
in sacred communion
with all my senses
captivated
within the fullness
of life
moving through me
as I move with
all of life
and soften
without thought
into Wholeness.

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Fall Falls Effortlessly

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Moonlit Night — 30 Day Art Project: Day 23 Haiku #7

11 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Posted by Louise Gallagher | Filed under Haiku

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The Eagle — 30 Day Art Project: Day 22 — Haiku #6

11 Wednesday Sep 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Haiku

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To read the post that accompanies this Haiku and painting as well as Eldon Taylor’s wonderful story about the eagle who thought he was a chicken, please join me on my daily blog — Dare Boldly.

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Autumn Bruises — 30 Day Art Project – Day 21 Haiku #5

11 Wednesday Sep 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Haiku

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The Road to Nowhere (A Quadrille)

09 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Uncategorized

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Meanwhile, somewhere in the Rockies… a poem appeared

This poem is in response to a poetry prompt that appeared in my Inbox this morning — it called to me as I remembered taking several photos from the car as my beloved and I drove back from the west coast earlier this summer.

NOTE:  The poem itself in no way reflects our relationship. We are committed to driving together, side by side, or the rest of our lives!

However, sometimes, a prompt elicits thoughts that are asking to be expressed. In this instance, the prompt was for a Quadrille (a 44 word poem) that had to include the word, or variation of the word, “Nick”.

This poem wrote itself into being.  It was fun!

The Road To Nowhere

©2019 Louise Gallagher

I nicked a photo of your thoughts
left abandoned
on the roadside
where you drove off
without me.

A photo nicked holds not enough time
to find the way back
to where we drove side by side
on the road to nowhere
but Love.

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To read more responses to the poetry prompt visit Diverse Poets.  It’s quite fun and entertaining too!  You might even feel inspired to ‘nick’ a poem or two or at least pen one!

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The River Flows Free (Haiku #5 – Day 20: 30 Day Art Project)

09 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Creativity and art, Essential Journey, Haiku

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Mixed Media on Canvas Paper – 11 x 14 – Art & Words by Louise Gallagher

To read the story that goes with this painting, please join me on my blog, Dare Boldly. — The River Runs Free

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Spring Follows Winter (Day 19 – 30 Day Art Project) Haiku #4

09 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by Louise Gallagher in Haiku

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Mixed media on canvas paper – 11 x 14 – Art and Words by Louise Gallagher

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