Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-duality

Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-duality

by Martin Wells
Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-duality

Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-duality

by Martin Wells

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Overview

In the early hours of almost every morning during the Covid lockdown in the months of March and April 2021, these poems began mysteriously arriving - like persistent early morning visitors. Curiously, the author's wife was absent for the whole of this time, and much to her amusement, in her place lay an open notebook, a blank page and a pen. Soon nearly 40 poems filled the notebook - Martin never having written poetry in his life before. Although the pandemic provides the foreground for this collection of poems, they have also been prompted by timeless universal themes, symbolised in a snowdrop, a park bench or an olive tree; found in conversations about love and life and death, in news items and random images. But most of all arising out of that deep longing for union and freedom at the source of each of us. The poems are about what it means to be alive and deeply connected to the natural world. In so doing they go to the heart of mindful living and non-dual wisdom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785359316
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 12/01/2022
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.29(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Martin Wells has worked as a psychotherapist in the NHS for over 30 years. He also teaches mindfulness to patients and staff. Ten years ago his own profound experience of 'letting go' radically changed the way in which he now works. Martin lives in Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

The Responsibilities of a Snowdrop 1

Lost for Words 3

The Ant and the Ostrich 5

Ending It All 9

If You Choose Comfort 11

A Hidden Life' 13

A Hundred Days in Lockdown 15

No Birth Without Contraction 17

A Birth Continued… As I Awake 19

On Knowing How to Live and Love (dedicated to Mark - who does) 21

The Park Bench 23

Lecture Given to the Royal College of Psychiatrists: Dr Jean-Marc Mantel 25

The Roots of Love 27

The Pugilist 29

The Olive Tree 31

The Caterpillar and the Psychotherapist 33

The Purpose of a Rose 35

Silence Fulfilled 37

Not Separate 39

Man's Best Friend (for Bella and Maisie) 41

On Contrast 43

Dear Virus 45

Dear Human 47

Carpe Diem 49

Lily's Gift 51

By the Sea 53

But Not Seen

The Stickiness of Ego 55

Dear India 57

Tres haikus por favor 59

In Gratitude 61

We Need Darkness 63

In the Wind 65

For Sue 67

Für Muttichen 69

The Whirling Dervish 71

A Meditation 73

From Fiction to Freedom 75

The Thorns of Shame 77

No Ending 79

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