It is always a treat to see one of the greats in spoken word
and discourse on the poetic tradition, David Whyte talking and reading his
poems in person. It was a true blessing
and gift to join in the celebration of words in harmony with spirit at a recent
Saturday morning in Santa Monica, California at the First Presbyterian Church
that found Mr. Whyte touching deeply on one of his favorite topics, igniting
the soul of passionate creative expression, this time discussing Williams Wordsworth. Whyte talked about the moment in his work
that Wordsworth committed fully, heart and soul, to his life’s work and love,
Poetry.
“After dancing all night, Wordsworth walked into the morning
light somatically alive, casting his eyes on the beauty of day break, once and
for all dedicating his life to sharing/writing his poetry free of the burden
and besiegement of other’s voices.”
(I love the use of ‘somatically alive’ in reference to the
joy that flowers after a night of dancing.)
Mr. Whyte went on to read from this section of the poem
referenced that illuminates the moment Wordsworth’s shares through his work…
Magnificent
The morning rose, in memorable pomp,
Glorious as ere I had beheld—in front,
The sea lay laughing at a distance; near,
The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds,
Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light;
And in the meadows and the lower grounds
Was all the sweetness of a common dawn—
Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds,
And labourers going forth to till the fields.
Ah! need I say, dear Friend! that to the brim
My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me
Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly,
A dedicated Spirit. On I walked
In thankful blessedness, which yet survives.
Wordsworth found he would always belong to this place, this
time and this feeling of his most connected heart, to his purpose in the world
and his natural authentic expression, and through this he would always be in
celebration of life, his and the world at large, in nature’s fullest
projection. Life is pretty wonderful as
we allow it all to be. Joy is made manifest through our hearts song and our
hands action. BE someone today who listens to the loving action required for
our gifts to be shared with the world.
David Whyte has brought these poetic connections to light
for me in so many different ways. It is cool to see in Whyte’s own words, this
embodiment of being found by the joy that lives in each experience of this life
giving source to all that is and how we all come to find that aliveness.
JOY
is the meeting place of deep intentionality and self
forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in communion with what
formally seemed outside, but is now neither, but become a living frontier, a
voice speaking between us and the world: dance, laughter, affection, skin
touching skin, singing in the car, music in the kitchen, the quiet irreplaceable
and companionable presence of a daughter: the sheer intoxicating beauty of the
world inhabited as an edge between what we previously thought was us and what
we thought was other than us.Joy can be made by practiced, hard-won achievement
as much as by an unlooked for, passing act of grace arriving out of nowhere;
joy is a measure of our relationship to death and our living with death, joy is
the act of giving ourselves away before we need to or are asked to, joy is
practiced generosity. If joy is a deep form of love, it is also the raw
engagement with the passing seasonality of existence, the fleeting presence of
those we love understood as gift, going in and out of our lives, faces, voices,
memory, aromas of the first spring day or a wood-fire in winter, the last
breath of a dying parent as they create a rare, raw, beautiful frontier between
loving presence and a new and blossoming absence.
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully
generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the
doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self felt like a
thankful death itself, a disappearance, a giving away, overheard in the
laughter of friendship, the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a
strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living
conversation, the sheer privilege of being in the presence of a mountain, a sky
or a well loved familiar face – I was here and you were here and together we
made a world.
‘JOY’ From CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and
Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Take some time to give it a read. Take some time to connect
to your own passions, take some time to experience the flight of your soul’s
expression in all you do.
Perhaps this story about the magnificence of the morning light after dancing, in what I picture as under the moonlight in the first warm night of spring where the blossoms stir and share their beautiful fragrance and allow us the privilege of remembering what it is to be alive in this moment and the next and to not be able to stop until there is no other answer but to move into the morning light of grace and acceptance and wholeness.
Each step into the light of that magnificence reminds me of the answer to the question returned to my heart, the truest answer of my hearts questing and chasing to figure out, the answer to "WHO ARE YOU?" ringing clear into the air of my awakening. WHO ARE YOU?....
Thought it would be fun to share the joy of reading and
releasing words infusing them with love and spirit, (in some
cases crafting) and in others leaving the jagged edge of inspiration untouched,
with a reading of Mr. David Whyte's work, check it out here on soundcloud. It is a true heartfelt joy to also read great
poetry. Something I love to do everyday.
May the days ahead bring more wisdom and insight and always
Love as we practice untrammeled joy! You can check out the full work of affirmation of this magnificence here.
Lots of Love.
Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles
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