Wake Up and Roar: Poetry for Meditation and Awakening

By Guthema Roba

Guthema's poetry contains life itself and it enters straight into your heart as you read each verse that seems to dance within you. Every single verse is like a drop of magic that sinks in deeply and you will laugh and smile feeling the presence of God in them as well as in you. He is a master artist of creating words that dance in new and unique ways with one another in brilliant form and flow so effortlessly off of the page as they drop right into your soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9780878399697

Guthema Roba

Guthema Roba currently works for the Hennepin County library. He was born and partly grew up in Ethiopia, East Africa, before he immigrated to the United States.  His book Please Come Home is a collection of  mystical poetry that remind us to live in the present moment. He says life becomes a prayer when fully lived and celebrated each day. Good poetry, he adds, is the one that brings us closer to our heart. He writes poetry on a daily basis and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter. 

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Please Come Home, 2013

Acknowledgements

Turning these poems into a book wouldn’t be possible without a continuous support and love from Astroid, my precious wife, and Homa, my darling daughter—I am truly blessed with you.

I am deeply inspired and moved by the guidance, presence and deep insight from the following friends: Fred LaMotte, Sattva, Helene Averous, Kristy Thompson, Kathryn Graham Wilson, Cezarina Trone, Barbara Jean, O.M. Rohr, Mulumebet Beyene, Shel Brook, Jana Dular, Chinmayi Celina Sochaczewska, Mary McMahons—and many more whose names I have not mentioned here.

I also extend lasting gratitude and love to the staff as well as friends of the Golden Valley library for supporting the flow of this poetry.

I am grateful to Finote Tibeb Literary Center in Minneapolis and Edge Life Magazine for publishing my poems in your publications.

To the great staff of North Star Press who published this book—your goodness has always touched my heart.

On the path of spiritual growth and self-inquiry, the following beloved poets, spiritual teachers, mystics and saints have deeply helped me ignite the fire deep in my being that has always been present and also to recognize the same in everyone I come in contact with: My eternal gratitude to Rabindranath Tagore, Krishnamurti, Kahlil Gibran, Herman Hesse, Jalaluddin Rumi, Hafiz, Mirabai, Walt Whitman, Meister Eckhart and many more whose names are not mentioned here.

I bow to everyone who comes to hold this book—you are holding eternity, something that is going to wake up the sun in your own heart. Blessings.

Contents

Also by Guthema Roba

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Mystery to your own mind

Force of life

The door of your being

Roses and moonlights

When the mind is still

Piece of stone

The one whose eyes are open

Knowing your life’s purpose

Dissolve into me

On the edge of existence

The seed of goodness

Be kind

Infinite splendor

Beyond this sky

Love me as yourself

Fear makes you blind

Your body

Worth kissing

It is possible

Flow towards your voice

Direct merging

Because you are enough

Speak of light

What comes from the origin

Sense of deficiency

Acute hunger

Beyond the form

How much caffeine

Zero interest rate

There are days

All that is nourishing

The one who has forgiven

More closeness

Promise me today

Tender house

Here is not a place

What does a rose need to bloom?

Making a living

Who is sitting closer to you

Our being here

The horse

Running away

Glow

Come closer to me

Like innocence

Endless splendor

No substitute

An opportunity

Grapes into sweet raisins

Come

Like Bird

Be fresh air

Walking on the red carpet

With all your breath

The only path available

The direction

Wild flower

Until you become the sea

Bridges

River of wine

Dissolve more—

Your hermitage

Wake up and roar

A simple act of kindness

The way I love you

Inner harmony

Divine dance

Absolute tyranny

Original seed

A single sip from your joy

Free from memories

Sometimes

In the world

When we gather for a dance

Where poetry can grow

The real wild one

Stay close to your smile.

Meeting obligations

Open the door

The flute

Forgiveness

A thousand dark caves

Vanish into sunlight

There is only this love

All-consuming sweet fire

Sacred bread

Original simplicity

Flow

Luminous beings

When you change

Earthdance

The beginning of time.

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