PODCAST

Contemplations

Weekly Poetry Archive

A dialogue with our human experience winphyo.substack.com

arts philosophy

All Episodes

7:02

The Season of Climbing ~ Welcome Back

Contemplations ·

2024/05/20

Hi friend,After nearly two years of hiatus, I come back to my newsletter Contemplations again.It has been a long time coming and before I tell you about why I had such a long break and what you can expect in your inbox from now on, I want to say:THANK YOU.I am quite sure to bet that your life in the past two years have also been an interesting ride- full of both the ups and the downs, the peace and periods of fast momentum, of growing deeper roots, BUT -You continued to stay subscribed to this

7:59

The End of This Newsletter/ Podcast Season

Contemplations ·

2022/07/26

Beyond my windowIs a whole wide world There are trees swaying in the wind There are birds singing songs The dogs are barking and the cars Are moving along Just as the people who stop and stare Or go about their business to somewhere The sun still shines The neighbour’s cat visits my porch Everyone and everything continues Beyond my window There is a time for everything and today marks my last post of this season, which has unexpectedly lasted for 7months. When I first started this podcast

21:57

The Spider and His Web

Contemplations ·

2022/07/19

Have you seen a tree that grows to maturity in a day? My mother once told me about spiders building their webs “You didn’t grow up watching spiders so you don’t know,” she would tell me “The spider produces his own web and many times he would lose grip and he would fall again and again He would then climb back up again and again Continuing to construct his intricate web” This is the timeline of nature Where no sequence of our life is constructed in 24 hour blocks There is only wisdom and

21:29

The World is Beautiful

Contemplations ·

2022/07/12

The human journey is a funny phenomenon.There are those who decide early in the beginning that what they perceive to be real is something that only they can see in the physical realm of the senses. They disregard anything that cannot be explained by the logical brain, labelling the ones that talk and speak to the invisible forces as crazy. The crazy people continue to dance to the music only they seem to hear; they continue to speak to the unseen. The crazy people had long been an outcast in much of

12:13

All about Love

Contemplations ·

2022/07/05

Love is forever a mystery to those that do not let her in. To those with thick skins and walls built up, high enough to suffocate themselves with their own air, love is fickle and too weak. They see another soul as an obstacle, in the way of the plans they have made. When Love suddenly puts another soul in their path, they think she is mocking them. “I will show Love!” They say, as though Love is yet another obstacle course to climb over and afterwards to gloat at how strong they have been, in no

20:19

Our Noses to the Grindstone

Contemplations ·

2022/06/28

“Let’s try to figure everything out,” says the brain Yet the sustenance of the journey lies in the joy of the heart The object of life is joy Spontaneous and ever present to the unfoldment of surprises As the brain gauges on the desire the destination with a scalpel the object of desire flees Whilst the heart nurtures what’s truly meant to be revealedThere is a poem that friends of mine introduced me to a year ago. It goes like this…If you put your nose to the grindstone rough, And keep it down

13:54

A Tug of Peace

Contemplations ·

2022/06/21

The Poet The rhythm of the footsteps Nor the chatter will not Shake her now The steady beat of the kora Invites the words to string into sentences The warm drink is Her safety blanket When her mind is empty The food is a source of nourishment For her body A comfort and a luxury To afford the inner kind of nourishment That a regular landing of the page brings She is slowly becoming a part of the furniture In this busy cafe To be hardened by practice To be broken and built up by The admission of

13:51

The Selves We Meet

Contemplations ·

2022/06/14

The Face to be Found What to do to be me Somedays I am wise Somedays I am a child Somedays I feel like a fully fledged woman Whatever that means Somedays I am nowhere to be found Somedays all I want to do is hide Somedays you cannot shut me up Somedays I just want to spread all the love I feel in my heart Somedays I want to protect the underdog Somedays I want to just let it be Trusting that there must be someone greater than me Doing their job Somedays I am the monks from the monastery Somedays I

A World Without Creativity

Contemplations ·

2022/06/07

Why not dream and dance? Why not walk the paths and tracks unmade? Why not wander in mind in the opposite direction? Why not? Why not choose to express your individuality? Why not be weird and unconforming? Why not create something new? Why not? This world has seen too many copies Our souls have been tightly packed into neat cardboard boxes Of niceties and politeness Long enough We have betrayed ourselves Long enough When our brothers and sisters Who have gone too far To know the whispers of

In Between New Beginnings

Contemplations ·

2022/05/31

With every step we take We are evolving And unfolding Shedding our old skins No longer akin Leaving what has been With a grin To continually begin Again We are not aspiring About what we will Become Because we come to be At peace With the piece Of ourselves That no longer fit In a box We dance to the beat Of the drums only we can hear Is anyone giving us a cheer? Who knows?! We continue to grow Regardless Of the heartless The hardship The darkness We harness As the fuel For our fire We will

7:07

To Play the Long Game

Contemplations ·

2022/05/24

Let’s expand our sense of time so we don’t think in seconds but in hours not in hours but in days not in days but in months not in months but in a decade not in a decade but a lifetime not in a lifetime but in infinity Anything of quality takes more time to build than the sudden flash of the ignited dreams and passionsThere is a theme that has been cropping up lately. Whether it be to do with my own life or that of those around me, I am seeing the patterns very clearly of how we as human beings

13:12

What is your anchor?

Contemplations ·

2022/05/17

We should tend to the things close to our heart Animals, plants People Dreams Our well-being Even if it all disappears one day It isn’t for nothing Our caring and cultivation has made us and overtime have shaped us into the People we have become This is what we will keep for eternity Not the forms that have taken shape As a result of our care But the very generosity Radiated from the heart I think for most of us, there is an internal bias between spontaneity and self discipline. I don’t know

8:30

The Idea is Only the Beginning

Contemplations ·

2022/05/10

What if I told you that there is no destination? Where will you go then to not get the blues? and what is your fascination to that which catches your eye? Before you can fly, let’s first grow your wings before you soar into the sky let’s first jump on a cloud that brings you on a journey even as a train arrives at its station there is no hurry its voyage continues from the current location for time is an illusion and perfection is a cage only by each moment, we engageContemplations:What ideas are

Strings of Memories

Contemplations ·

2022/05/03

Once there was a time I swear there was a time I don’t remember it clearly now But there was a time Oh so ordinary Oh so unplanned It was a time I once lived There were the good times There were the bad times There were the times I was bored There were the times when Excitement innocently knocked on our doors We went on adventures in a place far far away Would it be as it has been lately had we stayed There in the heat of the summers Caught in the monsoons Life wasn’t so easy We were still making

12:26

To Rest

Contemplations ·

2022/04/26

To Rest Rest is to do things slowly without rushing Rest is to give a gift to your mind and in turn, your body may rest too Rest is to hear the conversations in your mind and to recognise the figments of your own imagination accumulated across all these days Rest is to put things down instead of picking things up Rest is to worry less about moving backwards Rest is to disrupt your plans Rest is to surrender to the calls of that which is bigger than you Rest is to admit that enough is enough Rest

12:26

A Traveller not a Tourist

Contemplations ·

2022/04/19

The Traveller She who abandons all she has ever known Half woman Half horse A fool with merely a bundle of a bag on her back Shooting an arrow onto some distant land filled with Different faiths Different doctrines Different beliefs The colours of the Globe fulfils her She is receptive to every gesture of love orchestrated by the Universe not merely limiting herself to her fellow humans and creatures The marriage of spirit and matter are just as if not more alluring In every passage She

Poems for the Departed

Contemplations ·

2022/04/12

The Grandmother Young One You are only twenty one Barely an adult Still shy as a child The world has yet to Shake wildy for you In time Life will tear you apart To bring you back up What is meant to be Is still hidden from you You heart is still tender Your head is still strongly naive About the things that Can bring you down on your knees This life is long and This life is short Remember about the tortoise Who had a steady pace Go slow and you will win the race Have patience and you will Weather

13:43

The Priceless Question Mark

Contemplations ·

2022/04/05

As we were transitioning slowly out of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, I spent a lot of my spare time working on myself. It was my second year in of being in the personal development world. It was my second year of living by myself. It was my second year of getting to know who I really was.If you had met me a couple of years before, you probably would have met someone who was lost. I was repeating the same patterns of behaviour and circulating around me were people who I desperately wanted to help

7:10

Conversations between the Heart and the Brain

Contemplations ·

2022/03/29

When you see the word love, what is the first thing that comes up for you? Romantic relationships? Friendship? Acts of service?We have all been impacted by love at some point in our lives. This is because we all interpret the word in our own ways. Love is both abstract and concrete at the same time. The elusive nature of love has driven many creatives to sing, to write, to speak and to draw about it for many years.My relationship with love lately has been the relationship I am developing with my

6:23

Chasing Excitement

Contemplations ·

2022/03/22

Excitement is a fool’s treasure that perhaps we all fall into all too frequently. I am unsure that excitement alone is an emotion we should chase to sustain our visits again and again with something that is truly worthwhile or something worth playing the long game.In relying on excitement alone, we may not choose to continue when there are challenges or stale moments within the journey, when the task at hand is not giving us the exhilaration we so longed for and when the outer circumstances are not

50 results

Contemplations

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

Diaries: From the Housing Projects to Power

Mia Z. Edwards

九霄电台

九霄电台

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host

The Magnus Archives

Rusty Quill