The Heavenly Moment Heaven is seeing a blue circle of light before falling asleep Heaven is finding Goethe & Albert Schweitzer to be my heroes. Heaven is getting accepted by the college of your first choice. Heaven is baking a jello cake with peaches arranged as a flower. Heaven is having Martha Graham sign her program inspiring me to dance. Heaven is meeting your first spiritual teacher who enlightens you. Heaven is writing a poem with wonderful words flowing right through you. Heaven is drinking from the wisdom of sages in the Cornell stacks. Heaven is feeling like Galileo seeing the moons of Jupiter. Heaven is learning Nature's language of life predicting protein structures. Heaven is getting a letter from your girl friend telling she loves you. Heaven is having Marcel Marceau sharing his Zen moment in mime. Heaven is seeing a sage fourteen days in my four trips to Europe. Heaven is wild birds flying to your hand eating raisins and almonds. Heaven is teaching kids to have pride and joy in writing poetry. Heaven is saying the magic word so Dalai Lama turns to sign your book. Heaven is meeting a stranger that becomes your intimate friend. Heaven is dancing the waltz around the ballroom swirling like the stars. Heaven is crashing Pinsky's Poetry Workshop and he lets me stay. Heaven is being calm and joyful finding bliss is within you!
Peter Y. Chou After writing the poem "Heaven is..." based on generalities, I recalled many epiphanies in my life that may be called "The Heavenly Moment" arranged here in chronological order. |
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