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The Art Of Touching You

Posted on 13 July 20197 August 2019 by H. Hennenburg
Image by Marc-Olivier Jodoin illustrating poem titled The Art Of Touching You by H. Hennenburg
Image by Marc-Olivier Jodoin

I am often grappling with the uneasy coexistence of absolute oneness and the seeming separation imposed by being in a physical body and of an individual mind – the condition of being an earthling, as it were. Here, the antidote to existential loneliness is an acceptance of a connection that is not knowable through my physical senses – a real surrender to my own beliefs. Physical touch is so much easier, yet this other kind of connection is so much bigger. But how do we live that kind of connection in our day-to-day physical world? We have to reach out our hands, answers my intuition. She gives no further instructions.

The Art Of Touching You

Telescope to the sky
A tingling darkness rises within
Shaping me tenderly
Resonating with things too far or too close for the eye to see
Things to be known instinctively

I sit alone with the universe
Embodying its great infinity
Contemplating the boundlessness
And the borders we impose
Intersecting at nowhere

And it is here that I laugh again
Because you are so close
That I can feel and know and love you
You are in my very own particles
And yet you are uniquely apart, as am I

But the art of touching you
This is the quest for which I turn to the telescope
The finer details eluding me
Out there we intersect, you and I,
At every point imagined and unimaginable

Here, I lie back and open my soul
To the immensity of that truth
My cosmology defining nothing while explaining everything at once
In this vast darkness swirling immeasurable light, I surrender and repose my longing
And reach out my hand and accept that you are here

© H. Hennenburg, 30 January 2007

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25 thoughts on “The Art Of Touching You”

  1. Dinka says:
    13 July 2019 at 3:18 PM

    Beautiful poem …

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      13 July 2019 at 5:48 PM

      Thank you so much, Dinka!

  2. Chrissa says:
    14 July 2019 at 9:50 AM

    Love how this dissolves the edges along a sense of wonder. 🙂

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      14 July 2019 at 10:30 AM

      And I love your phrase “dissolves the edges along a sense of wonder”. You should totally use that in a poem! 🙂

  3. Sherry Blue sky says:
    14 July 2019 at 10:00 AM

    I love “I sit alone with the universe, embodying its great infinity.” I love being an earthling, aware of the bigger picture. Though in these times, it is a worry. Your poem is beautiful.

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      14 July 2019 at 10:28 AM

      Although, the more I am aware of the bigger, bigger picture, the less I worry. Thank you, Sherry!

  4. [email protected] LOOSELEAFNOTES says:
    14 July 2019 at 10:56 AM

    I love this and it fits in with mine. I think that part of my relationship with my sister who has died comes from dream contact but also from me and the parts of her that live in me. But it is esoteric and only partly reassuring because we are in these limited bodies. But there is so much more. I love the telescope poking up.

  5. Myrna says:
    14 July 2019 at 10:56 AM

    This is absolutely beautiful. I feel it as a prayer of oneness, a prayer both honoring and questioning this oneness when we are imprisoned in duality. So well expressed!

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:24 AM

      Thank you, Myrna. I love your insights. 🙂

  6. Toni Spencer says:
    14 July 2019 at 12:56 PM

    Beautiful poem

  7. Mary says:
    14 July 2019 at 1:12 PM

    This is like a meditation! Lovely writing.

    1. Magaly Guerrero says:
      14 July 2019 at 2:20 PM

      The first thing that came to my kind, too, Mary!

    2. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:26 AM

      Thank you, Mary.

  8. Sanaa Rizvi says:
    14 July 2019 at 1:25 PM

    This is incredibly exquisite!!

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:26 AM

      Thank you so much, Sanaa!

  9. gillena says:
    14 July 2019 at 2:09 PM

    What lies beyound the vast azure, surely a touching question. Enjoyed your poem
    Thank you for dropping by my sumie Sunday today

    Much❤❤love

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:27 AM

      And a beautifully stated question, Gillena. I love your way with words. Thank you!

  10. Magaly Guerrero says:
    14 July 2019 at 2:23 PM

    I love the openness we end up with. How we start by learning so many wonders about the speaker, and the way she relates to all things, and then… at the very end, she tells me, “And I see you.”

    “I see you, too,” I say.

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:28 AM

      Magaly, so lovely. That means a lot, really. Thank you.

  11. Rosemary Nissen-Wade says:
    14 July 2019 at 5:04 PM

    Lovely that the ineffable leads back again to touch – with so much more awareness.

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      15 July 2019 at 9:29 AM

      I love the way you express that, Rosemary. Thank you.

  12. ayala says:
    15 July 2019 at 4:28 AM

    A beautiful poem.

  13. H. Hennenburg says:
    15 July 2019 at 9:29 AM

    Thank you, Ayala.

  14. Dwight L. Roth says:
    8 August 2019 at 8:02 PM

    I love your post! The tangible and the intangible are one….

    1. H. Hennenburg says:
      8 August 2019 at 8:19 PM

      Thanks, Dwight!

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