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Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 22, 20201 min read
In Which Direction
your love grow? Will the scars and scares point you in one direction? Or will you allow the flow to carry you? Farther than you ever...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 21, 20201 min read
Let the Mother See
You have been shown The light cannot be broken. Yet, still you won’t see that All the things you think are shadow, broken off bits that...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 18, 20201 min read
Moonbeams and Magpies
A moonbeam crossed my path the other day and a magpie flew by with construction material in his beak. Broad daylight extending the ways...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 17, 20201 min read
We Shaman Types Scare People
We shaman types scare people in the same way schizophrenics do. Our worlds involve relationships with the invisible and the ‘inanimate’,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Head in the Clouds?
They said your head was in the clouds. It was actually in the stars. You still are. You just made yourself small, to feel seen and forgot...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 13, 20201 min read
Entwined
We are as entwined together as roots to ground. When we feel ripped apart, we roar. Can’t you see? Root into me, he, she Wrapping around...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 12, 20201 min read
Where Water Meets Sky
Where water meets sky along a horizon And the waves lick the low setting sun They need not say a thing to each other. The love is in the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 11, 20201 min read
They Come
They come, the Old Ones and the newly dead ones They come on the wind They come on the rivers From the ground they cleaved and called...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 10, 20201 min read
As the Cantor Sings Me Through
Prayed into Existence Poured into Being The cantor now sings me through Note by note, calling the Becoming and the Return. #Divine #One...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 6, 20201 min read
Inhaling the Mother
Steeped in her majesty Cupped in her palms She lifts us to her lips And sips Inhaling us as we are The mother The breath The life. The...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 4, 20201 min read
Dreaming God
I dreamed a dream that really wasn’t God said, painting himself blue so I’d know who was who, “we really are going home this time. I...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 3, 20201 min read
Bathing in Hafez
I wanted a bath in Hafez today To make a raft for the body and ease the spirit Each poem, each page though was overlaid with images of...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Bitter Wine
The wine tastes bitter sometimes. Like the dandelion, though, It will help you grow. Sip a little, make the squinty sour-face if you...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Hearing the Prayer
To hear the prayer of one is to hear the prayer of all. To heed the prayer for one is to answer the call for all. Everyone has walked...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 26, 20201 min read
To Feel the One
To feel the pain of another is to know their heart. To feel the darkness of another is to know their heart is not dark. To breathe the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 14, 20201 min read
Good Vibrations?
When you are focused on ‘raising their vibration’, what are you really trying to do? Why would you choose to do that rather than asking,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 17, 201914 min read
Dinetah
Two nights ago, in dreamtime, someone demanded to know my relationship with the ‘cornfield compound’, somehow thinking that where I am...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 20, 20191 min read
Quiet Friend
#Rilke #soulfulpoetry
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 6, 20191 min read
Oh, Child.
Oh, Child. You are not just a child of God. You are the answer to aeons of prayer. You were made this way before breath brought you to...
Ingrid Oliphant
Oct 23, 20191 min read
The Mother
The Mother of the Rivers The Mother of the Mountains The Mother of the Trees The Mother of the mud and magma, her primordial ooze that...
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