Gone to Seed
Gone to seed, they said as if dried out was done and dusted unable to birth the next generation or build a foundation for the futures.
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Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Firmament
Firmament...Say it out loud Doesn't it sound when it rolls from the tongue like something solid underneath the feet A place that births...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 15, 20221 min read
God's Hand
So, yeah God touched me the other day Reached out a mighty hand and laid it on the top of my head Blessed me in the sight of another...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Holding Grace
When the world opens you (and, my love, she will) ~without invitation or preamble~ the lostness becomes the place that has been calling...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 6, 20211 min read
Strange Beauty
How long have you looked without seeing the strangeness of your own unearthly beauty that bends the inside of joy out to gaze upon...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 18, 20211 min read
Smoke Dance
Rise and dance through the smoke of your burning your heart alit Embers of anger cooled by the tender touch of love Sorrows gone by wept...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Walking on Water
Jesus didn't walk on water. No one ever has. We are held by her, though; those of us who go where others don't dare, those willing to...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 16, 20211 min read
New Territories
You can’t fold yourself back into the mapped territory you’re familiar with The interior topographies have changed Ridges of division,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Daughter
The sun called you daughter long before you were first touched by dawn. Trees bow before you more deeply than they do the wind. You are...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 16, 20210 min read
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 14, 20218 min read
Modern American Lynching
And a Wounded Country There is a deep wound cleaved in this country. Our shortened and selective memory would like us to believe it is a...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 4, 20210 min read
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 30, 20211 min read
Flightpaths of Prayer
#soulfulpoetry
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 22, 20212 min read
The Mother Rising
The Mother Rising is a series of immersive, experiential transmissions for spiritual awakening and conscious remembering of one’s...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Walk Between Worlds
#soulfulpoetry
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 5, 20211 min read
Seamless
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Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 4, 20213 min read
The Visitation
Photo by Manyu Varma “When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 17, 20212 min read
No Path, No Way: Perfect
Photo by Rob Wicks “This focus of ‘inward path’ and ‘outward path’ is as limiting a belief as any. As if one is more ‘righteous’ or...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 16, 20213 min read
I Am Not Mine Own
I am not my own. My body is not mine. The boundaries of my skin hold the multitudes that began merging within me in 2010. They came...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 15, 202110 min read
On Being Homeless Again
A week ago today, I became homeless for the second time. The first time, I did it on purpose and had never imagined that I’d do something...
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