Alla Bozarth Poems

Pack Nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness to be free.
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The small plot of ground
on which you were born
cannot be expected
to stay forever
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We do not want to rock the boat,
you say, mistaking our new poise
for something safe.
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If you feel your life
needs solving, try
three methods—
absolve all that is
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Bakerwoman God,
I am your living bread.
Strong, brown Bakerwoman God,
I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf.
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Music is everywhere
music is in sound and
music is in silence
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Of the three types of narcissism,
benign, malignant and malicious,
the first can be charming and harmless,
the second is primarily self-destructive,
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Reality is intricate and vast.
You are real.
Life is cosmically generous.
You are gifted, alive.
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It began and was over in a single day.
November 7,1917 brought down the Romanoffs
and Russian history of a thousand years.
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Prayer is intimacy with the Great Mystery.
Be every moment aware of the Presence —
how you are loved!
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