My Heart Knows What the Wild Geese Know

By Fran Blackwell

Inspired by Rumi, this poetry reflects my own spiritual understanding and is not intended to speak for any spiritual path, teacher or religion. I am deeply grateful for the insights I have gained while studying the path of Eckankar for the past 45 years. If you’d like to learn more about Eckankar and receive a free Eckankar book, please call 1-800-LOVE-GOD or visit www.Eckankar.org.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982235932

Fran Blackwell

Fran Blackwell had her Jazz beginnings in New Orleans where she fell in love with the form as well as with Jazz drummer Ed Blackwell, whom she married. They had 3 children, 9 grand-children and 11 great-grand-children, and growing. She cites Blackwell as the influence for her poetic style. A pivotal experience in her life was being arrested for miscegenation. In 1958 New Orleans society was intolerant of couples of mixed race. She knew growing up as a child, that the unjust segregation laws of the deep south could not be truth, and were in fact, an assault against Soul. This event was a catalyst for her to continue her search for Truth, no matter the cost. She began writing poetry later in life, as she found her inspiration for expressing the mystical. For the past 45 years she has studied the Spiritual teachings of Eckankar, practicing and living the spiritual principles which opened her heart to discovery and exploration of the mystical and spiritual worlds. Blackwell is the author of a previous book of poetry, Fingerprints of God. She has traveled the world as a speaker and workshop facilitator on spiritual topics, and devotes her life to a path of service and love. She currently lives in Florida.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

My Heart Knows What the Wild Geese Know

Spiritual Self-Confidence

Feathered Edge

The Tale of a Wounded Heart

Outworn Stuff Means Nothing or Are You Brain Damaged?

Let Soul Run the Show

To the Hero in All of Us

Be Unstoppable

Doors of Grace

Application Requirements for Passport to the Far Country

The Source

The Wise Investor

The Inside-Outside Secrets

To Live Life With an Adventuresome Spirit

Soul’s Divine Birthright

What Is Enough?

What Is a Mystic?

Did I Forget to Remember? Is There More to Be Said?

The Fullness of Madness

Heartland

From the Frying Pan into the Fire

Challenge All the Givens

A Garden of Gratitude

All One Can Do Is the Best One Can Do

Awakened Heart

Do You Know?

The Line between Divinity and Madness

When Stones Become Rocks

Finding Ourselves in God’s Grace

Note to Soul

Do Rainbows Weep?

The Results Are In

Nobody’s Fool

Just Get Started

Weaving Dreams, O Dreamer

The Relentless Pursuit Of

God Whispers

Seeing with the Eye of the Heart

Soul Knowing

Now Is the Time

Dream Teachings\

Revelations

Melodies At Twilight

Transformation: Bridging the Moment

The Agony of Love

Morning Comes

Awakening

Listen to Heart Wisdom…May the Lessons Be….

I Wonder

Words Take Flight

Me Inspired

Just Saying What Is Unsaid….Speaks Louder Than Words:

If One Listens

Is It Spiritual Trickery?

Late Comer Arrived in Time

About the Author

FOREWORD

In her second volume of poetry, the first being Fingerprints of God, Fran Blackwell has again dipped her pen in the ink of spiritual wisdom and written poetry to reflect these truths.

She indeed knows what the wild geese know, because she speaks that inimitable language of soul, of other world mystery, and tries to convey it into ordinary words.

These sparks of wisdom travel from her heart to the land of language and Fran lovingly allows us to accompany her on this journey. Her voice is unique.

This beautiful book of poetry is her gift to everyone who holds it…life jackets of wisdom on a turbulent sea.

Joyce Snyder

author of The Truth About Benjamin Franklin

Credit to Duke Ellington for the line:

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.

This book is lovingly

dedicated to Z

my inspiration, my guide, my master teacher of 45 years.

MY HEART KNOWS WHAT THE WILD GEESE KNOW

The place beyond knowing,

the place where no direction known,

yet exists in the stories of the wind,

the unheard call, relentless in its sound.

And when the Heart hears, It follows,

for It knows beyond all knowing where It flies.

Makes no difference except in the experience,

north south east or west

where rivers run wild,

and the wind draws the Heart ever onward

knowing when It gets there, wherever there is,

It won’t stay.

It can’t stay, for the restless

stillness drives It on and on into the wildness

of dreams untold,

and life unfolds in the journey.

The Heart in flight, day or night.

It will be all right,

for the trusting Heart

only knows to accept all that comes

and go on giving even when life

breaks Its wings.

On broken wings It flies

into the dawn of a new spiritual day.

It rises in wisdom gained, even through the pain.

Nothing stays the same, and nothing

from nothing leaves nothing.

And life is never the same,

For the Heart that knows what the wild geese know,

knows It is always homeward bound into the Sound

and Light, consumed by love.

It finds freedom in love.

High above this earthly world It sees all life

manifesting God’s Presence, and is compelled

to manifest this sacred presence wherever It goes.

Yes, the Heart knows and follows the

wind from the mountain of God, wherever it

blows, for it knows best.

For better or worse.

With no flight plan It goes,

and knows Its Self

found in the storms of life,

and in the gentle fall

of rain refreshing Its Consciousness.

In the ways of Its Divinity,

this is a Heart born to fly, not rest.

For the rest of the stories of life and love

are written in the wind and the stars.

Its flight is always Divine Love in Action.

Yes,

my Heart knows what the wild geese know

and my Heart goes where the wild wind blows

evermore.

Forever love, always love.

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SPIRITUAL SELF-CONFIDENCE

What do you seek in your life on a daily basis?

The approval, the praise of others?

The desire to please?

Are you aware that anything of notice regarding

what you do, how you do what you do,

when you do what you do, is empty of objectivity?

Just someone’s opinion, a judgment call.

And when your dependence is misplaced on

others for confirmation of your worthiness,

it shatters the heart.

It is unreliable at best; it is a sometime thing.

Every thought, word, deed, and even breath

must be devoted to know oneself,

to have absolute self-honesty

for all your actions,

then you know your truth,

nothing but the truth,

so God helps you.