Elizabeth Stamper is a poet, author, and licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Florida. She has led workshops in meditation, breathwork and yoga, energy healing, sacred relationships, inner child work and women's spirituality. Her life and practice have been enriched by studying the major religions and spiritual traditions, by "sitting at the feet" of many spiritual masters, and by traveling to pilgrimage sites around the world. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling, and is an Interfaith minister with ordination through the Chaplaincy Institute, Berkeley, California.
December 2013 update: Elizabeth's poem, 'What the Gods Long to Give,' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Origami Poems Project.
► Elizabeth's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poem are available below.
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Cover image from the Web
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{mooblock=What the Gods Long to Give}
My to-do lists gets shorter every day.
I indulge in jigsaw puzzles, and poetry. I need less food, only to drink in the deep blue sea on a bright morning. The lesson for today - the edge for sharpening the soul’s teeth - just to endure the cat’s complaining with a murmur of compassion. Oh, how long has the body been tensed like this ready to spring like a panther at the prey of details? How long does it take for these muscles to inhabit a more spacious, a more generous way? How many crickets must raise a chorus before I truly hear them -
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Elizabeth Stamper © 2013
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A small seabird circles the sky.
She is pulling back the clouds, Undraping the day. And it never occurs to her that she is too small for such an awesome task.
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