Lisa Goodwin

Lisa works as a massage and shiatsu therapist in Eagan, Minnesota. She has a love for gardening, writing, painting, biking, and traveling. She has been profoundly influenced by Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti.

Etch a Sketch Love

Sentiment of thoughts slip
the mind now a sieve

Sand is like memories
easily erased and rearranged
differently

I Etch A Sketched you,
our relationship, our love

Small dots of perfection and
irregularities
wiped clean away

Love arises with
the roughness of your cheek

so simple


Weeding my thoughts

I used to perpetually weed my
garden

You must get rid of your weeds
I was told

They are surly and unruly
Now I see clearly the dandelion
blooms beauty like a rose


Seeing

Out of these eyes
you arise

Seeing the seen
and unseen

the in-between

To the fools
this means
nothing

Not the nothing
of something

but the nothing
of no meaning

To the dying
this meaning is
everything


The Invitation

I invite you to knock
on the door

Perhaps whisper your
questions

To wait in solitude
for an answer

In waiting

Look

In yearning
Feel

Wait until the emotions
are trapped

Snagged shut in the silence
of the shutting door

Trapped butterflies, beautiful
frenzied dance

There is no where to go
when the door is closed

In waiting

Listen

One butterfly, two butterfly
no longer frenzied

In waiting
everything stops

Waiting happens
and peace becomes


The fullness of empty

Now that nothing is gone
fullness arrives
fully fleshed out green

Laced fingers of grass
in soft flows of lilac thyme

The golden rods bowing
to the sunflowers

birthing colors I didn't
know existed

In summer's moments
with ripened fruit
emptiness

Fall marries summer
into the silence of winter
they go

In quiet frozen solitude
Earth's blanket of whiteness

I feel full
and content


God lives here

God lives here
in this strange house

the shutters pulled back
twilight and dusk
seen

the door open
rain, snow and sunshine
and all of heaven's creatures
come on through

Birds make a nest in the
heart of it
pecking away, their longing
heard

This used to be a happy house
on the hill, newly painted

This used to be a lonely house
with the shades drawn

This used to be...someone's
memory left between the
floorboards
now cracked.

This used to be a house
the driveway now
dilapidated and forlorn
the grass reclaiming
its own

This used to be a house
now God calls it home


Lisa can be reached by email at shiatsuqueen@gmail.com.

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