40 love poems

A daily writing practice. 

Starting today, I’m gifting myself with a 40 day writing practice centering LOVE. This is both a way for me to be in my creative energy and expand my own emotional range.

Expanding emotional range, building skill around the ways I feel and express emotions, is forefront in my learning. It feels really necessary. I’m very skilled at, for instance, one expression of anger. It’s what I like to call "the ice pick” –it’s so cold and will pierce you straight through.

It would be very helpful to have a few more ways to feel anger available to me, so that I can be in the full cycle of my emotions in a way that is appropriate for the situation. I don’t need to ice pick everyone who drives 10mph below the speed limit in front of me when I’m already late to pick up my kid from school, for instance. And, I also don't need to suppress my anger –which I might do because I certainly don't want to go around ice picking everyone. Having more expressions, building more skill around not only my emotional intelligence but my emotional body, feels like a worthy piece of work on this path of being human. 

But, in the interest of bringing a more welcoming energy into my life, I’m not starting with anger. I’m starting with love. With the intention of bring some softness to my learning and because I truly want to grow my capacity to feel and express love, ALL the loves –or at least lots of loves.

Today is both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s day. Today feels full of paradox, which feels a lot like love –that boundless capacity to be bound to the source of love. Walking, willingly into that fiercely strong, tender vulnerability of love –loving and being loved. A good, juicy place to start this exploration. 

for our love,
Megan