This Poem was Submitted By: Molly Johnson On Date: 2001-08-16 18:44:25 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Souls Tingle

Intently we’d open small palms and close eyes in  a mustard-yellow meditation chair. It was tall above our smallness  and, though we did not know  Buddha stories of cobra shadows,  it was an awning of a chair, yawning us  into the cup palm cushion and letting us pretend to be peaceful. I would warm up my soul like a heated winter back side, scooting up close to the  fire, and then  hold the hot cloth against cool skin to form the exciting scorch.  Souls tingle when they press next to peace. Flush with serenity, we interrupted each other,  impatient for our turn at stillness. Dad gave my brother the words to mutter and allowed  him a deeper shuddering shot at hot centered oneness.  I was too young to know the secret but there is a hole  in my wholeness where it would still fit.

Copyright © August 2001 Molly Johnson


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