Ingrid OliphantApr 1, 2020On Marvin GayeToday is the anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s death. I was 14, getting ready for school and heard the news on my radio. And I lost my shit. I...
Ingrid OliphantApr 1, 2020Our WayI have never born false witness. My relationships with those things that others cannot see are my devotion and I can’t lie to them or abo...
Ingrid OliphantMar 31, 2020Braided Breath, Bonded HeartYou weren’t born a basket but the weaving of you began long ago, before a thought ever conceived you. Plaited, wefted, crossed again thro...
Ingrid OliphantMar 30, 2020What If You KnewWhat would change for you if you knew that a God, The God, all the Gods, wanted nothing more than a relationship with you? What if you kn...
Ingrid OliphantMar 30, 2020Spring DrinkingAs we begin to drink more more sun than snow The pace of growth quicken for you as does the greening of things. Deepening roots will draw...
Ingrid OliphantMar 29, 2020LeakingYou’ve sprung a leak. Pore by pore the water is seeping in. A slow spread of damp, then a trickle before you become flooded -slowly, sure...
Ingrid OliphantMar 28, 2020StumblingDid you stumble on the way to the lightness of your own Being? Grace was there, too. #soulfulpoetry
Ingrid OliphantMar 27, 2020Party of OneFor some the realization is like a collision. Self, belief smacking full speed into the solid stillness of the quiet God. Then realizing ...
Ingrid OliphantMar 26, 2020The Mother RisingStraddling two worlds? Really? There is only one. Why diminish yourself into multitudinousness when you can just Be? Why create a dimensi...
Ingrid OliphantMar 26, 2020Looking Down to PraiseYou are not external to Him. And you blend just as seamlessly with the brown-skinned man next to you at the bus stop. And the one whose p...
Ingrid OliphantMar 25, 2020Feeling KnowledgeHave you ever felt a piece of knowledge slide across your skin? Slippery, like that little something or other that won’t come off the tip...
Ingrid OliphantMar 23, 2020Prayer for TodayThat you hear the Divine both within silence and a child’s laughter, That’s you see the Divine both in yourself and another, That you tou...
Ingrid OliphantMar 21, 2020Let the Mother SeeYou 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 f...
Ingrid OliphantMar 18, 2020Moonbeams and MagpiesA moonbeam crossed my path the other day and a magpie flew by with construction material in his beak. Broad daylight extending the ways t...
Ingrid OliphantMar 17, 2020We Shaman Types Scare PeopleWe shaman types scare people in the same way schizophrenics do. Our worlds involve relationships with the invisible and the ‘inanimate’, ...
Ingrid OliphantMar 15, 2020Head 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 OliphantMar 14, 2020Flightpaths of PrayerLoosed from the lips They go to the heart that will feel The ears that will see And feet that will move inspiration to action. The paths ...
Ingrid OliphantMar 13, 2020EntwinedWe 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 ...