![]() ![]() “ The Teacher” will be featured in this signature collection of personal stories and folk tales to touch the heart, speak to the soul, and tickle the funny bone. Join me to explore love in all its forms in my upcoming debut SOLO storytelling performance “Legacy of Love.” Friday, August 25th, 2017, 7pm-8:30pm. Home Irish Poets David Whyte The Truelove by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way. I am thinking of faith now and the testaments of loneliness and what we feel we are worthy of in this world. Upcoming Storytelling Performance: “Legacy of Love” There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way. Loving fiercely is one of the categories that I explore in my upcoming performance. Poet and philosopher David Whyte reads his poem The Truelove. He provides the roadmap to facing the challenge of finding the courage to love … and love fiercely. Read the full poem at the end of this post. poem The Truelove, found in his book The Sea in You: Twenty Poems. Later in the poem, he describes the transition to risking the vulnerability of love. Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests, conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. To complement the industrys self-portrait Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong. My poem describes the the receiving end of that love, but David Whyte describes the giving of that fierce love. I can’t remember if I had read his poem before I wrote mine, but the themes are universal. and immediately captivate me because of my own poem, Loving Fiercely. The above words open David Whyte’s poem, TRUELOVE. ![]() ![]() The poet and philosopher, David Whyte, captures the unseen territory in our lives with the inspiring landscapes of his words. ![]()
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