Life Is
All of my poems are responses to or reflections about a question. The questions that inspired this poem are most basic. I’m asking often. What is life? What is meaningful life? What is dynamic life? To what do I give myself that is much bigger than me?
Life Is
Life is what is in front of me.
Here.
Now.
It is what I see and feel
watching waters flow by this stone.
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Life is what I give myself to.
With love.
With learning.
It is following each hunch
to connection.
Life is letting go the worry.
The busyness.
The hurt.
It is celebrating all
that challenged and freed.
Life is here, now.
Guiding.
Fulfilling.
Tenneson Woolf (www.tennesonwoolf.com). I’m a Poet (love getting to the prosed essence). I’m a Coach (love guiding to purpose, meaning, direction, and instinct). I’m a Group Facilitator (inviting and guiding group imagination and collaboration in participative leadership for the big picture and the next first steps). Writing inspires my imagination and grows my intuiting. I post a daily blog, Human to Human, in which I offer reflection on varied aspects of participative leadership practices, insights, and human to human depth. I’ve published three poetry collections — In My Nature (CentreSpoke 2023) is my most recent. Before that, Most Mornings (CentreSpoke 2022). I’m originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I now live in a South Jordan, Utah where high desert valley meets the feet of the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains.
