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I create a new poem each week based on my current reflections and publish it on Fridays. You are invited to share this quiet space by perusing my poem collection (in purple) to your right. If a poem resonates with you, please feel free to share your thoughts/feelings in the Comment Section at the end of each piece. Thank you …

Call Me By Name

February 10, 2023

Do not mistake my raindrops for anguish — I know no desperation.

Midwinter in the Forest

January 1, 2023

A hiker’s witness …

Deeds Done

December 23, 2022

Cast off the spells from musty old ciphers and claim your marvelous!

Faith

December 9, 2022

Playing hide and seek behind dusty stacks of doctrine — whose stiffness has stifled our centuries …

Dark Light

November 27, 2022

Dread, Overwhelm and Terror stroll in through psyche’s door …

Words have Wings

November 13, 2022

Your verbs may hurl vipers or virtues …

Sit Silent

October 28, 2022

Allow the death of silence to devour your devils.

Living in the Bones – 2

October 15, 2022

Living in the Bones is splendor laid bare.

Bless, Heal, Nurture

October 1, 2022

We are the present explorers, tracking our way home; our earth instincts
whittled as walking sticks.

Head Lines

September 23, 2022

She wears struggle on her face like laundry on a line.

Postcards from the Pandemic

August 26, 2022

Is this a monster? Or a bug we’ll swat away by summer?

Sister

August 12, 2022

“Why she had to go, I don’t know. She wouldn’t say”.
Lennon/McCartney

Saving Daylight

August 5, 2022

I am not ready to cast away the dark hours …

Circle of Life and Death

July 29, 2022

No mere erotic indulgence, this is Life meeting itself.

Water on the Boil

July 24, 2022

The breath inside of me is the ebb and flow of the sea.

Shark Teeth and Angel Wings

July 16, 2022

A day arrives in a woman’s life when she is who she is.
Stands sturdy inside her own skin and makes no apology.

After the Storm

July 8, 2022

Your sister’s death has forced a meeting with your own mortality.

Space

June 10, 2022

My brain hops out for a romp in the field of dreams …

Shut Down, Clear Out

May 27, 2022

On this day, tomorrow weighs less than yesterday.

Walking her Mind Home

May 20, 2022

A lady was strolling one day when she noticed her mind was five steps behind.

Other Side of Good Enough

May 13, 2022

Let your heart strum the notes and your wildness weave the tune.

Round and Round

April 22, 2022

My brain is on fire with the thrill.
But I’ve worn holes in my dress and the tempo is making me dizzy.

Missile Named Peacekeeper

April 15, 2022

Do you remember when our language first began to lie?

This to That

April 8, 2022

Vicissitude is the only constancy, rocking you to the rhythm of your worries.

Life’s Way

April 1, 2022

What if who you are, and what you do, were the way of life itself?

Just Be

March 18, 2022

Be known in your own world — a fan club of one.

Filling Up

March 11, 2022

No illusions left to bolster your defiance.
You are dead to yourself.

Light in the Dark

March 4, 2022

Spirit knows how to do it.
We don’t need to figure it out.

Do the Work

February 25, 2022

You are being breathed by the very lungs of transmutation.

Eye of the Beholder

February 18, 2022

What happens when you press the pause button on your knee-jerk moment and just STOP?

I create a new poem each week based on my current reflections and publish it on Fridays. You are invited to share this quiet space by perusing my poem collection (in purple) to your right. If a poem resonates with you, please feel free to share your thoughts/feelings in the Comment Section at the end of each piece. Thank you …

Call Me By Name

February 10, 2023

Do not mistake my raindrops for anguish — I know no desperation.

Midwinter in the Forest

January 1, 2023

A hiker’s witness …

Deeds Done

December 23, 2022

Cast off the spells from musty old ciphers and claim your marvelous!

Faith

December 9, 2022

Playing hide and seek behind dusty stacks of doctrine — whose stiffness has stifled our centuries …

Dark Light

November 27, 2022

Dread, Overwhelm and Terror stroll in through psyche’s door …

Words have Wings

November 13, 2022

Your verbs may hurl vipers or virtues …

Sit Silent

October 28, 2022

Allow the death of silence to devour your devils.

Living in the Bones – 2

October 15, 2022

Living in the Bones is splendor laid bare.

Bless, Heal, Nurture

October 1, 2022

We are the present explorers, tracking our way home; our earth instincts
whittled as walking sticks.

Head Lines

September 23, 2022

She wears struggle on her face like laundry on a line.

Postcards from the Pandemic

August 26, 2022

Is this a monster? Or a bug we’ll swat away by summer?

Sister

August 12, 2022

“Why she had to go, I don’t know. She wouldn’t say”.
Lennon/McCartney

Saving Daylight

August 5, 2022

I am not ready to cast away the dark hours …

Circle of Life and Death

July 29, 2022

No mere erotic indulgence, this is Life meeting itself.

Water on the Boil

July 24, 2022

The breath inside of me is the ebb and flow of the sea.

Shark Teeth and Angel Wings

July 16, 2022

A day arrives in a woman’s life when she is who she is.
Stands sturdy inside her own skin and makes no apology.

After the Storm

July 8, 2022

Your sister’s death has forced a meeting with your own mortality.

Space

June 10, 2022

My brain hops out for a romp in the field of dreams …

Shut Down, Clear Out

May 27, 2022

On this day, tomorrow weighs less than yesterday.

Walking her Mind Home

May 20, 2022

A lady was strolling one day when she noticed her mind was five steps behind.

Other Side of Good Enough

May 13, 2022

Let your heart strum the notes and your wildness weave the tune.

Round and Round

April 22, 2022

My brain is on fire with the thrill.
But I’ve worn holes in my dress and the tempo is making me dizzy.

Missile Named Peacekeeper

April 15, 2022

Do you remember when our language first began to lie?

This to That

April 8, 2022

Vicissitude is the only constancy, rocking you to the rhythm of your worries.

Life’s Way

April 1, 2022

What if who you are, and what you do, were the way of life itself?

Just Be

March 18, 2022

Be known in your own world — a fan club of one.

Filling Up

March 11, 2022

No illusions left to bolster your defiance.
You are dead to yourself.

Light in the Dark

March 4, 2022

Spirit knows how to do it.
We don’t need to figure it out.

Do the Work

February 25, 2022

You are being breathed by the very lungs of transmutation.

Eye of the Beholder

February 18, 2022

What happens when you press the pause button on your knee-jerk moment and just STOP?

Shark Teeth and Angel Wings

February 11, 2022

She sits in Circle with the different ones, allowing their voices to disassemble her world.

Fighting Chance

January 28, 2022

A fighting chance is empty of struggle and reveals providence within the ordinary.

Space of In-Between

January 21, 2022

On the lip of despair, you cry out loud, Not This, No More!

Clean Slate

January 14, 2022

You hunger to linger here, to clasp this miracle …

Solitude is my Bestie

January 7, 2022

Solitude is a gift that only I can give to myself.

Living in the Bones

December 31, 2021

We humans may notice how little we notice — when not soaked in the drama of extremity

Ecstasy

December 17, 2021

Ecstasy comes calling
To save us from ourselves

Made for these Times

December 10, 2021

“Remember that you’re wild. You are not separate. You are Earth”

Whiplash

December 3, 2021

You were made for these times.

Love in the Room

November 26, 2021

We wake to the mystery of each day,
imagining that we know

Put it Down

November 19, 2021

Hey lies, you lies, all alibis!

You got it and you know it, ain’t no surprise

Dark Light

November 12, 2021

Denial is no remedy,
As this tale devours your waking dreams.

Baby Steps

November 5, 2021

“One who moves the hill sets off by taking away the rocks.”

Bug in a Rug

October 29, 2021

“A cock crowed. Shrill and clear – reckoning nothing of wizardry or war – only the morning … far above the shadows of death …”

Pin Drop

October 22, 2021

Your reach moves beyond sense — into sensibility.

Pivot

October 16, 2021

“What we call the beginning is often the end”

Each in Time

October 8, 2021

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.”

Walt Whitman

Sliding Sidewalk

October 1, 2021

I lose track of time and space and self.

Departure – the Aftermath

September 24, 2021

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid.”
Jonathan Hamisch

Rain

September 17, 2021

What are you saving for a rainy day — that when it finally arrives, might be too late?

Righting Wrongs

September 3, 2021

Some wrongs cannot be righted. Nor can they be reconciled or understood.

Decision

August 27, 2021

A decision makes itself.

Planting Daisies

August 20, 2021

“Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief
turning down to its black water
to the place that we can not breathe
will never know
the source from which we drink”
David Whyte

A Soft Place to Fall

August 13, 2021

“Universal compassion starts at home, by extending an olive branch of mercy between you and yourself”

I am Willing

August 6, 2021

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
Rumi

Fire with fire

July 30, 2021

“It is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Think Like a Mountain*

July 16, 2021

“You must approach not to conquer, but to be taught.”
Ella Young, Irish Mystic

Six Degrees of Separation

July 9, 2021

“Six Degrees of Separation” proposes that each of us abides a mere six humans away from every other person on earth. That we might chance-meet anyone in the world with six or fewer mutual connections.

Begin at Truth

July 2, 2021

“The truth will set you free. But not until it’s finished with you”.
David Foster Wallace

Like a Face

June 25, 2021

“You hold Life like a face, between your palms. A plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you. I will love you, again.”

Course Correction

June 18, 2021

We didn’t chart our course in 2020. It was thrust upon us without will.

But did we really think that Mother Nature would press the pause button on our whole world without cause?

Something Happening

June 4, 2021

They tell us one thing. Then, take it back with the opposite.

Too late to undo the effects of flawed counsel on poor decisions.

The Being is in the Doing

May 28, 2021

Your title plants a seed.

But it’s in the alchemy of discovery that unearths growing things.

Wearing Thin

May 21, 2021

You’ve been an eager fan. Received so much from his teachings over the years. Can scarcely believe the extraordinary benefit.

But lately, the blush is off the rose.

More Love

May 14, 2021

Did you know that the hard moment you just experienced with your friend was an opportunity for more love?

Blurred Identity

May 7, 2021

Lines are drawn. Places taken. I know who I am, how I see things and what I stand for.

Until now.

Peace is Now

April 30, 2021

We begin by stating simply, Peace Is.

Makes it easier for us to locate.

Delete

April 23, 2021

Let’s start by giving my own exhaustion the heave-ho.

Ok — done. Moving on to other worthy candidates for the delete button.

Bad News

April 16, 2021

When was the last time you listened to a news report and said to yourself, “wow — that was so uplifting. Just made my day!”

Gray Wolf

April 9, 2021

The shooting began in late February.

Within three days, twenty percent of the magnificent Gray Wolf population in Wisconsin had been slaughtered.

Bend or Break

April 2, 2021

“If you surrender to the air, you can ride it”.
Toni Morrison

Agree to Disagree

March 26, 2021

We humans do not need to reach agreement. Good thing — since we frequently don’t.

Media Mind

March 19, 2021

I switch on the television. And flick it right off.
It’s like static white noise to my ears.
I find little in tv-land to teach me kindness.

Pressure Cooker

March 12, 2021

“The heat is on, on the street. Inside your head, on every beat. And the beat’s so loud, deep inside. The pressure’s high, just to stay alive. ‘Cause the heat is on.”
Glenn Fry

Life Show Me

March 5, 2021

I’ve done nothing wrong.
But I can’t find my way home.
(Blind Faith)

Seeing and Being Seen

February 26, 2021

We all long to be seen. Whether extraverted, introverted, shy or outgoing.
We want to be known for who we are. Not just for what we’ve done.

Bypassing Bias

February 19, 2021

Bias — is a bit like walking around town in the same old coat, no matter what the weather conditions.

Embracing Kindness

February 12, 2021

“Kindness is the opposite of stress.” Dr. David Hamilton

Retreat

February 5, 2021

I know it’s time to retreat into the Silence of solitude when … I am the frequent subject of my own critical eye.

Negotiating with Life

January 29, 2021

“Negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same”. Paul Simon

Overcast mood meets the grey skies of a Sunday morning.

Heart of a Blogger

January 22, 2021

We’re flippin’ the script, y’all. This week, our blogger’s swiveling the lens onto herself and snapping a selfie.

Losing Connection

January 14, 2021

The dawning rays of 2021 … Five losses in the same number of days.

Anticipation

December 31, 2020

I waited a year for its arrival.

But when the sought-after treat finally dropped anchor at my front door, I’d pitched it into the garbage within minutes.

It’s Not Personal

December 18, 2020

We get it. It’s not personal for you.

But as for us … ouch!

Stepping Up

December 10, 2020

You’re being called to ‘play bigger’. And, it’s scary as sh*t.
Because you’re an introvert, right?

Character

December 3, 2020

“I grabbed the mic and walked towards the stage. They said, ‘knock them dead, Steve’!

I replied, ‘they’re already dead … I’m about to knock them ALIVE’!”

Foot Steps

November 24, 2020

You know you need to travel.

But, how are you going to take that first step when you can’t see the road ahead?

I’m Swearing Off …

November 22, 2020

It took me a week to come up with these cheery ones. (God help me if I’d had two weeks.)

Worries, concerns, annoyances, agitations … Those little f-faces that strong-arm their way into your space.

Love at Capacity

November 12, 2020

You are streaming love out, full bore.
Shining your Light – strikin’ the bell.
You’re shaking it up, sister/brother. Amen!
And now, for some radical candor. How’s it going with your love life?

It Is. Or, It Isn’t.

November 4, 2020

It is either meant to be, or it is not.

If it’s intended to be, nothing can stop it. It is isn’t, nothing can start it.

Places We Hide

red moon
October 30, 2020

I don’t know about you, but there are times when I feel like I just can’t face anybody. And, I mean any body.

OVERWHELM (Darkness is your Candle)

October 21, 2020

In these times …

OVERWHELM sweeps in like a great, grey gloom — WHOOSH — blanketing every inch of your aliveness with her sheltering coat.

Passion and Purpose

October 17, 2020

Are you feeling like you’re supposed to be “living your purpose” — but, you’re not pulling it off?

Maybe you’ve only got a slim sense as to what ‘purpose’ actually is (or should be)?

So, how the heck are you going to lay your hands on it?

Across a Great Divide

October 7, 2020

Here’s a cliffhanger for the heart.

Your cousin has invited you into her confidence. She’s ready to confess a secret — one she’s kept to herself until now, even from close friends and family.

By No Other Name

September 29, 2020

I sifted through my USPS “informed delivery” list for incoming mail. And it ruined my day.

First entry: a card addressed to a person whose name had landed in the dead zone over five years ago. That person was me. And the sender, my father.

What to Say when You’ve got Nothing to Say?

September 22, 2020

Have you ever noticed in the heat of an exchange how your mouth is moving and words are tumbling out — but, scarcely a second later, you’re regretting it big time?

Your Self Worth Slipped on a Banana Peel …

September 15, 2020

And smacks you down hard into a very dark hole.

Confidence in tatters, bright narratives shattered.

Your mirror on the world has exploded into a thousand tiny pieces — your flesh, pierced on the jagged shards of your own broken viewpoint.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed*

September 8, 2020

Sometimes it feels that way …

But a boatload of evidence points to the contrary. Perhaps we might have a peek at what we’re closing our eyes to. And, what it’s costing us.

Bring it Up – Or, Let it Go?

September 1, 2020

You’ve hit the skids on a communication. Big time. Crap, it even started out on the guy’s birthday, too.

Calling Future Memories Forward

August 26, 2020

August 20_ _

The Pain Has Gone.

No Covid, no fires, no hate.

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