Feathers & Dreams
Feathers & Dreams
Feathers & dreams
softly listening
to the heartbeat of the tree...
ensouled in its rough bark.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2019
Maryam Mermey’s Healing Arts Blog
To Be Broken Open
To Be Broken Open
To breathe in the morning sunrise
to be broken open
by the music of its glow...
to dance
in the fire!
Photopoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2019
Healing Glass Mandalas Class 9/2019
Views of transcendent Mandalas by the participants of the Healing Glass Mandalas class in the Prevention & Healthy Living Program at Maine/General Hospital in Augusta, Maine.
The Jester
The Jester
The archetype
of a jester
running into flight,
A white Mandala
for an eye,
& an orange beak
for humor.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020
Ancestors
Ancestors
Rolling,
playing in the clouds,
ancestors letting me know,
they will always
be with me.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2019
Calls of the Wild
Calls of the Wild
Writing poems
like giving birth
is a messy process...
Surrendering
to the Calls
of the Wild.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2019
Beyond the Sedge Grass
Beyond the Sedge Grass
Beyond the sedge grass
beyond the clan
beyond the glaciers...
I am one
with all life.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2019
The Rarest of Communions
The Rarest of Communions
The rarest treasure,
to step not part way,
but all the way
out of one's skin
into another's...
To know the heart beat of another,
when it is calm, in fright or love...
To breathe with the breath of another,
is the rarest
of communions.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2019
An Archipelago of Bear Medicine
An Archipelago of Bear Medicine
Cubs rolling
on the sedge grass,
on each other,
on an old tire...
Elders resting in the bay...
Their strength
rooted in Mother Earth.
Claws whitening
with age.
PhotosPoem by Maryam Mermey © 2019
Healing Glass Mandalas Class
Magical Mandalas from the Healing Glass Mandalas Class at Maine/General Prevention & Healthy Living Program.
Mandalas were made with fusing glass and fusing glass paints.
Innocence & Pain
Innocence & Pain
From threshold
to threshold,
Innocence & pain
Always longing
for the soul's light.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © Copyright 2019
We Make Our Own Joy
We Make Our Own Joy
Finding openings
through the tangle
of branches,
we make
our own joy.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2019