Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher http://shannoncrossman.com/ Poet, Fabulist, Memoir Writer Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:55:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 http://shannoncrossman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Site-Favicon-Transp-32x32.png Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher http://shannoncrossman.com/ 32 32 Residing at the Intersection of Love & Anger http://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/ http://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:00:06 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1861 Lately, I’ve been waking up with the fire of Kali-ma in my belly. Hell-bent on rage and destruction. Rattling her necklace of skulls. Howling across the face of the earth. The sacred feminine response to ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/feed/ 0 When a Wild Heart Calls You Home http://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/ http://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/#respond Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:09:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1854 Heart. Heartbeat. Beat. Beat heart. Small God of my chest. You keep time better than any clock. Mark the moments of a being in soft thrum through veins and organs. Yet, you are more than ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/feed/ 0 Diving into the Vulnerable Belly of Desire http://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/ http://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 23:56:10 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1850 Somewhere beyond logic and reason, beyond emotion, and past caring, resides my want. Driven by an evolutionary impulse I cannot govern. I expect I am not alone in this. Though we are only able to ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/feed/ 0 Both Halves Of The Sphere http://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/ http://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:32:09 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1836 I once spent many moons trapped in a nightmare from which I could not wake. Thrashing through life, fueled by resistance. Primed for flight. Each place my eyes lit some fresh, new horror eeked it’s ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/feed/ 0 Fragility & Fierceness http://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/ http://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:14:56 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1834 Sometimes I weep from the beauty of life. How everything coalesces into one. The All-ness of it all. What the Beloved must have been thinking as She spun this world into being. Such glory and ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/feed/ 0 Love’s Circus http://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/ http://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:13:06 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1805 Step right up and see Love at work here. The price of admission you ask? Only your vulnerability – the willingness to fall face first onto the pavement in front of thousands. Can you handle ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/feed/ 0 Show Me How You Get Back Up http://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/ http://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:57:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1802 Show me how you get back up. When life takes you down. When you’re on the cursed bathroom floor. Pressed hard against cold tiles. Desperate and clutching. How do you rise after the fall? Reveal ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/feed/ 0 Burn It All Down & Rise: The Magic Of An Awakening Woman http://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/ http://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:44:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1789 I am aflame. No one set the fire. This is self-immolation. The holy truth of an awakening woman. I don’t think I knew what I was signing on for when this all started. But there’s ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/feed/ 1 On Belonging & Being Broken http://shannoncrossman.com/on-belonging-being-broken/ http://shannoncrossman.com/on-belonging-being-broken/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:41:48 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1787 I am cherished. I am okay. I belong. You are cherished. You are okay. You belong. May this belonging be a litany to our hearts… An invitation: Let’s set down our stories of broken, need ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/creative-tsunamis/feed/ 0 How to Build a Home Where Your Heart Lives http://shannoncrossman.com/build-home-heart-lives/ http://shannoncrossman.com/build-home-heart-lives/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:51:36 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1778 Part One Home Building: Collect small bits of string twigs, and burrs, the hairs from a wild cat’s tail, a few needles of pine. String tiny beads of light along the spines of dandelions. Pause ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/build-home-heart-lives/feed/ 0 The Time Has Come To Scream Myself Awake http://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/ http://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:20:05 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1756 I am not here for your approving gaze. Not here to satisfy some need of yours, visual or otherwise. No longer content to be the subject of your displaced idea of me. What you want ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/feed/ 0 Dig Up Your Shadow From The Place Where You Last Buried Her http://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/ http://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:09:14 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1753 You forgot the ocean that pounds through your blood. Fell asleep to the powerful creator inside. Snap out of it, Sister. Wake up hard and soon, before the weedy grasses grow over your face tacking ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/feed/ 0 Practicing The Art Of I Don’t Give A F*ck http://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/ http://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:01:16 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1750 When all else fails, practice the art of I Don’t Give A F*ck. Pray it into your limbs with each contraction that comes with being reborn. Say it with me now: I Don’t Give A ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/feed/ 0 The Art of Birthing Words http://shannoncrossman.com/the-art-of-birthing-words/ http://shannoncrossman.com/the-art-of-birthing-words/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:55:21 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1698 Sometimes words come in heated pants pushing and thrusting their way into the world. It is all I can do to get hands in place to catch them wild and raw on their way out. ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/soft-open-sometimes-hard-world/feed/ 0 Let Yourself Rest Rather Than Resist http://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/ http://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:55:59 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=882 “The fish will be the last to discover water.”  ~Albert Einstein Be the Smarter Fish. Sometimes we get caught up in the net of our lives. Hauled onto the hard wood of the ship flopping ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/feed/ 0 Go only as far as you need. Then STOP. http://shannoncrossman.com/go-only-as-far-as-you-need-then-stop/ http://shannoncrossman.com/go-only-as-far-as-you-need-then-stop/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:29:19 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=876 Forgive me for this, but forget the race to the top. Please. Let go of constant streaming activity. Just stop. Sink into your holy self. Submerge your synapses in silence. Engage in the wholehearted, holy ...

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]]> http://shannoncrossman.com/infinitely-beautiful/feed/ 0 Make Yourself a Divine Bonfire of Light http://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/ http://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:07:57 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=865 Burn up. Burn away. Burn higher. Burn on. Whatever you do, do not extinguish your light. It serves as a marker on the trail of awareness. Hide it or put it out and we are ...

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