Micah Lapidus

Poetry

A Poem a Day

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I just read a poem or two. It’s a rainy day and it seemed like a good thing to do. It reminded me that poets exist. Many more than we will ever know. It reminded me that we might be among those poets. And we might not even know it. There are 150 psalms in […]

We Come Full Circle

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We Come Full Circle A circle is opened. Sitting in the circle: People of different faiths, backgrounds, experiences, colors, voices, faces, hopes, fears, loves, names. Singing: to punctuate the silence. Silence: to punctuate the song. Eyes closed: visions unfold. Eyes open: seeing the love between. Together: a healing. A circle is closed.

Let Me Know it Fully

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    Let me know it fully. A colleague said this to me today. During a webinar that he was facilitating. Let me know it fully. Not just any breath. But this breath. Not just any feeling of my fingers on the keyboard. But this feeling of my fingers on the keyboard. Not just any […]

Pause

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  Between breathing in and breathing out. Between this sentence and the next. Between thought and expression. Between hearing and listening. Between doing and doing. Between being and being. Between now and now. Between is and was. Between is and is now. A pause. — Between experience and meaning. Between meaning and memory. Between memory […]

Walk in Delight

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  Beyond measure, I am blessed. In ways disguised and manifest. In ways I can appreciate and ways I cannot. In ways deserved but in more ways graced. In ways that touch my daily existence and ways that don’t. Beyond measure, I am blessed. In ways that delight and ways that overwhelm. — Among these […]