About Henri Ferguson

Poetry, storytelling and song writing are members of the same family. I have a deep appreciation for the literary arts and believe that creative writing whatever its form, render a fleeting glimpse, a snippet of insight into the author's inner world. To live an unexamined life is our greatest travesty and consequently we cannot grow as we are intended to without putting ourselves under a compassionate lens of scrutiny. Writing can do this by giving us a strategy to crystallize those thoughts and emotions that so often elude clarity and self knowing. Journaling, writing poetry can be a catharsis in this process leading to a new awareness of whom and what we are. The journey of self discovery ultimately opens the door to the spiritual growth and evolution we so richly deserve.

Faith Reconciled

  “To stay with a broken heart, a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge;that is the path of true awakening”~Pema ChodronBehind this veillay all things possible,yet all things past.Shattered innocence personified,refusing to believea broken wing cannot be healed.Determination to seea heart soar high above its sorrows,endless riversflowing home to the sea.Passion conceding [...]

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Pocket Full of Buddhas

"Exhale, exhale fully. Emptiness begets fullness" My story is meI’m true to my storyveracity personified.not for public consumption,there is intimacy…and there islascivious lustingfor lurid details.Ask me aboutthe miles on my heart,the centuries on my soul,feel my painmy searing pleasureand all that goes onin between.Unfolding major Arcanalaid out before mesymbolically steepedinsinnuendos of the soulcompel me to [...]

By |2012-09-01T08:33:00-06:00September 1st, 2012|0 Comments

No Flies on Fuller

 She is a doer, she does thingsinstead of just talking about them.  Many folks talk endlessly about,going to do this,going to do that,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...and nothing ever comes of it,nothing. They don’t move,they are virtually catatonic,a perfect landing pad for flies. No flies on Fuller.  Copyright © Henri Ferguson 2012  Author Notes My wife Michelle who is the [...]

By |2012-08-30T10:13:00-06:00August 30th, 2012|0 Comments

It’s Been There All Along

  Letting Go: “In practice there is always the dance between feeling the truth of our suffering and letting go of it, not in a dismissive way but in a way that honors it”.You’re an alpha dog in a pack of one,you win races that don’t exist,Walter Mitty has nothing on you.Outrageous describes your relationship with the [...]

By |2012-08-28T07:14:00-06:00August 28th, 2012|0 Comments

The Answer Is Love

  "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"-Leo Tolstoy  Am I a fool for [...]

By |2012-08-25T20:24:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments

The Outcome of My Choosing

   “To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.”  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt You are the unwavering flamebeaming luminance into the shadowsof my thick and silent solitude.You are the waxing moonin my darkest nightwhere direction proves elusive.You are the anchorarmed with flukes of succorfor this flotsam soul adrift.You are the scanty [...]

By |2012-08-25T20:14:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments

Independence Cloaked Over Reclusive

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility” ~ Paulo Coelho ...and what of the chatterin your murky mindwhere overdue sleepproves elusive?Your heart safe behindwild wounded walls,independence cloakedover reclusive.You have no need,or so you saywith classicand stoic defiance,To seek safe harborfor your listing soulin relationshipsbuilt on reliance.So you lie there and gazeat that sliver [...]

By |2012-08-25T20:05:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments

Where Rivers of Desires Flow

   "Every desire you have at it's core exists because you think attaining it will make you happy; but happiness can only be attained in the present moment. Therefore, any desire you have to be happy in the future is blocking your ability to be happy now. Only when you are at peace with what is [...]

By |2012-08-25T19:46:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments

A Door Unopened

"Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives you what you need for growth"~ Leon Brown  Why did we meet?Does it matter?We did,that’s enough.Where it leadsis the mysterious glueholding this universe together.Attraction was instant,but kept under wraps.Saturday night blues in Wan Chai,the perfect backdrop.All night [...]

By |2012-08-25T09:15:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments

Just Fly

 Precariously perchedon this escarpment of commitmentI ponder leaping intoobscured and hazymatters of the heart.In vain I gazeat a blurred horizonthat beckons mewith promisesenshrined in tales of bliss.Praying for clarityreceiving noneI seek comfortin muddy waters,I wade on.Learning how to danceon a shifting carpet,feeling rather newin these old skins,endorphin’s numbing joy.How I long to be sleeping with [...]

By |2012-08-25T09:00:00-06:00August 25th, 2012|0 Comments
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